Kolkata, January 24
Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee was admitted to a private Hospital in south Kolkata with chest infection.
"He is stable. And there is no immediate cause for concern," AMRI hospital Dhakuria medical superintendent Dr Sumon Ghosh said. The 80-year-old Chatterjee was admitted to a private cabin late Saturday with fever, cough and cold under the treatment of chest specialist Subhasish Ghosh. "He has been put on antibiotics. He is fully conscious," Ghosh said.
Chatterjee, a former parliamentarian of repute, presided over the Lok Sabha from 2004 to 2009. He was expelled from the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) in 2008.
— IANS
