Kalyan Singh airlifted to private Ghaziabad hospital, stable

Ghaziabad | Thursday | 17th September, 2020

Summary:

Ghaziabad: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh, 88, who had tested positive for coronavirus, was shifted by an air ambulance from Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) in Lucknow to a private hospital in Ghaziabad on Wednesday, officials said.

Doctors said he was ‘absolutely stable’ and was shifted on his family’s request.

Singh’s family, including his son Rajvir, a Lok Sabha MP, and grandson Sandeep, a minister of state in the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, were both not reachable for their comments.

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Ghaziabad: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh, 88, who had tested positive for coronavirus, was shifted by an air ambulance from Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) in Lucknow to a private hospital in Ghaziabad on Wednesday, officials said.

Doctors said he was ‘absolutely stable’ and was shifted on his family’s request.

Singh’s family, including his son Rajvir, a Lok Sabha MP, and grandson Sandeep, a minister of state in the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, were both not reachable for their comments.

“He was doing fine.

His oxygen levels and blood pressure were all okay and he wasn’t running fever,” the doctors at SGPGI said.

“He was absolutely stable and improving,” the doctors added.

A staffer at Kalyan Singh’s house said the former UP chief minister, who also served as Rajasthan governor, was fine and he too, couldn’t say why Singh had to be shifted to Yashoda hospital in Kaushambi area of Ghaziabad.