After suffering a severe head injury due to a fall at his residence, former BJP leader Jaswant Singh is in a “very critical” condition at the Army Research and Referral Hospital. Singh was admitted there early on Friday and is currently in coma.
According to a release issued by the Defence Ministry, a lifesaving decompressive hemicraniectomy had been performed on Singh. “At present his condition is very critical. He is on the life support system and under constant monitoring by a team of neurosurgeons and critical care providers,” said the Ministry.
The 76-year-old former Defence Minister was admitted to the hospital in a highly critical condition around 1 am on Friday with an injury on his head. The Ministry said that his family members brought him to the hospital after finding him lying on the floor of the house in an unconscious state.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken to his family and prayed for Singh’s speedy recovery. “Examination at the hospital showed him to be in coma, with signs of ‘raised intracranial tension and a haematoma scalp’. Urgent CT scan of the head showed ‘an acute subdural haematoma with mass effect, a midline shift and contusion of the brain substance’. A lifesaving ‘decompressive hemicraniectomy’ was done,” the Ministry said.
Singh had also served as External Affairs and Finance Minister and was expelled from BJP early this year when he decided to contest the lok Sabha polls from Barmer in Rajasthan as an Independent candidate after the party decided to field Colonel Sonaram Chaudhary.