Jaswant Singh discharged, to get supportive care at home
Singh was admitted four months back after he suffered severe head injuries
New Delhi: Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Jaswant Singh was on Tuesday discharged from Army Research and Referral hospital in a “minimally conscious state" and will continue with “supportive care" at home, four months after he was admitted there with severe head injuries.
“Jaswant Singh is in minimally conscious state and is having unassisted breathing. He has been discharged to home for supportive care," defence ministry officials said. They added that Singh’s heart rhythm and BP are normal.
The 76-year-old leader was admitted on 8 August to the hospital in a critical condition after his family found him lying on the floor of his house in an unconscious state. Singh, who was in coma, had been on life support system all this while. At the hospital, Singh was being given total parenteral nutrition (TPN) which delivers nutrients intravenously when a patient is unable to eat on his/her own.
Singh, who had also served as external affairs and finance minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led National Democratic Alliance government, was expelled from the BJP early this year after he decided to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Barmer in Rajasthan as an independent when the party decided to field Colonel (Retd.) Sona Ram Chaudhary. He had lost the election.
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