Vajpayee: A patient AIIMS will remember forever

Delhi | Friday | 17th August, 2018

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The doctors and other staff of the hospital kept staring at the patient they will remember forever. "If the wait was too long, he would go to South Extension to have lunch," one of them told TOI.During the Emergency, Vajpayee suffered serious injury in his back. Union minister Arun Jaitley , in his Facebook post on Friday, recounted the late PM's interaction with the orthopaedic doctor on duty. Later, he developed dementia A team of doctors from AIIMS regularly visited his Krishna Menon Marg residence to ensure that the BJP stalwart's vitals were maintained well. This poem, Jaitley added, became one of the most distributed pamphlets during the Emergency.When Vajpayee became the PM, doctors from AIIMS were deputed as his personal physicians..