Nearly a fortnight after he was admitted to PD Hinduja Hospital here following a brain haemorrhage former Chief Minister and ex-Lok Sabha Speaker Manohar Joshi was shifted out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital and the doctors attending on him described his condition as “stable”.
Eight-six-year-old Joshi was on the night of May 22 rushed to the Hinduja Hospital at Mahim in central Mumbai in a “semi-coma” State after he developed complications from a brain tumour. “He has been shifted out of the ICU and his health is currently stable. However, he remains semiconscious. Our team of experts continues to closely monitor his health,” the hospital said in a health bulletin issued here on Monday.
Joshi, who has not been active in politics for several years now, became the first Chief Minister of the Shiv Sena in 1995 when his party came to power in alliance with the BJP and he remained in the post for the next four years. He was also the Speaker of Lok Sabha from 2002 to 2004 during the AB Vajpayee Government at the Centre.