With his conditions deteriorating further, former Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, on Tuesday was shifted to a private hospital, staff attending on him said. The 77-year-old politician who tested positive for corona virus last week suffers from a whole lot of ailment including COPD.
Bhattacharjee who was on BiPAP support at home experienced a dip in his oxygen level on Tuesday. Earlier he had rejected the idea of going to a hospital after testing positive two days ago.
His “oxygen level dipped below 90 this morning, following which doctors advised him to get admitted to a medical facility … he was however not willing to go to a hospital … but after the doctors told him that it might not be possible for him to be shifted at a time when cyclone Yaas will hit Kolkata the veteran Marxist leader conceded,” officials said. His wife Meera Bhattacharjee too contacted the disease but is stable now.