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BENGALURU: Siddaganga Mutt chief pontiff Shivakumara Swami’s health condition is deteriorating by the day. The protein and albumin levels are also declining,” said Dr Paramesh Shivanna, the seer’s personal doctor and head of the Siddaganga Hospital and Research Centre, Tumakuru. The devotees are being allowed to see the seer only through a glass window of the room where he has been put up. The doctors have also observed variations in his cardiac functioning.The seer, earlier admitted to the hospital in Tumakuru a week ago, was brought back to the mutt on Wednesday morning on his insistence. Battling infection and fluid accumulation in the lungs, the 110-year-old seer’s health parameters are gradually worsening.“His ventilation dependency has increased to 80% from 50% two days ago..