GUWAHATI: Former
Assam chief minister
Tarun Gogoi’s health condition has been stated to have turned critical on Saturday afternoon and has been put on intubation and ventilation at Guwahati Medical College and Hospital where he has been re-admitted since November 1 following post-Covid-19 complications.
Assam health minister
Himanta Biswa Sarma, who visited the 86-year-old Congress leader at the hospital said, “His condition deteriorated in the afternoon while he was on non-invasive ventilation. Now he has been put on intubation and ventilation. He is unconscious and the functioning of his organs has come down drastically. As per the doctors, compared to past two days his condition has deteriorated.”
“He has been administered medicines to revive his failed organs. If the medicines work, he might get back his normal breathing. He might need dialysis too and the next 48 to 72 hours will be critical,” Sarma said.
He added, “We cannot take him outside as he is already on ventilation. After discussion with his family members and doctors from AIIMS it was decided to continue his treatment at GMCH.”
Gogoi’s wife, son and Lok Sabha MP Gaurav Gogoi and entire family are beside him at the hospital, a close aide of Gogoi said.
The three-time chief minister, who led Congress to its third straight victory in the state in 2011 just five months after recovering from triple heart surgeries in Mumbai, was admitted to the GMCH on August 26 after he tested positive for
coronavirus. He was administered convalescent plasma and after he recovered fully from Covid-19, his health condition deteriorated while he was still in the hospital.
Doctors said that the former chief minister was suffering from post-Covid sequelae and oxygen carrying capacity in his body had become weak as he had a host of comorbidities.
The hospital authorities have set up a panel of six specialist doctors of pulmonary medicine, endocrinology, cardiology, medicine, surgery and anesthesiology along with a post PG doctor and two resident doctors of medicine department for continuous monitoring of Gogoi’s health.
Gogoi was discharged from hospital on October 26 hale and hearty, but after five days he was re-admitted in the hospital and put on ventilator support as his health condition had deteriorated and has been there since then. On November 4 he sent out a recorded audio of his voice from the ICU where he said that it was his aim in life to serve the people of the state till the end of his life and he will continue to do so in whatever way he can.