Telugu Desam Party president and former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who was admitted to a city hospital on Sunday evening with the complaints of jaundice, was recovering.
Naidu had returned to Hyderabad on Sunday evening after he was discharged from Ram Manohar lohia Hospital in New Delhi at the end of his six-day-long fasting and soon after that he was taken to Asian Institute of Gastroenterology with the symptoms of jaundice.
According to a health bulletin issued on Monday, the latest tests conducted on 63-year-old Naidu showed a marked improvement in his condition.Earlier, Dr D Nageshwara Reddy, director of the institute said that Naidu had lost 4 kgs of weight with marked wasting of muscle and fat. The tests showed that he was suffering from jaundice (abnormal functioning of live) and uric acid and HDl levels were high. Ketones were also present.
Naidu had developed dehydration and other problems during his six-day long fast in protest against the proposed bifurcation of the State. The fast ended when a team of doctors at Ram Manohar lohia Hospital forcibly administered intravenous liquid on Friday.
Naidu’s brother-in-law and film star N Balakrishna and top Telugu Desam Party leaders among the people who visited the hospital to enquire about his condition.