Admitted for brain clot, Pranab Mukherjee never came out of coma

NEW DELHI: Pranab Mukherjee breathed his last at the Army hospital (Research and Referral) on Monday, 22 days after he was admitted to remove a large clot in his brain.
His condition had deteriorated on Sunday, the hospital said in a bulletin on Monday morning. “He is in septic shock due to his lung infection and is being managed by a team of specialists. He continues to be in a deep coma and on ventilator support.”
Septic shock is a potentially fatal medical condition that occurs when sepsis — organ injury or damage in response to infection — leads to dangerously low blood pressure and abnormalities in cellular metabolism.

Mukherjee breathed his last in the evening. At 5.46 pm, his son Abhijit Mukherjee tweeted: “this is to inform you that my father Shri #PranabMukherjee has just passed away.”
Mukherjee was found Covid-positive in tests done before his August 10 surgery and was on ventilator support since then due to complications caused by bleeding in the brain. “The complications were not caused by Covid-19,” a source said. “There was bleeding in the brain, perhaps because of the blood thinners that he had been taking for long.”
On August 19, he developed features of lung infection, which led to the septic shock. He slipped into a deep coma, from which he never recovered.