Kolkata: Kabir Suman unwell, at SSKM

KOLKATA: Veteran singer-lyricist-composer Kabir Suman was admitted to SSKM Hospital late on Sunday with severe breathing problems, sore throat and high fever. The former Trinamool MP is being treated in Cabin 103 at the hospital’s Woodburn ward.
Suman was an MP in the 15th Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014 after being elected from the Jadavpur constituency as a Trinamool candidate.
Recently, the septuagenarian singer developed severe sore throat and breathing distress. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee paid him a visit at the hospital on Monday.
“The 72-year-old patient was brought to the hospital with acute respiratory distress and soreness/pain in the throat. He was admitted to the Woodburn ward and is on oxygen support. A rapid-antigen test was conducted on an emergency basis. But the test threw up a negative report. Samples for RT-PCR test were collected and that report, too, came negative,” said an SSKM official.