Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann admitted to Mohali hospital

More than 24 hours after Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann was rushed to the Emergency ward of a private hospital in Sector 62 here, he remains admitted to the hospital till Thursday night.

Throughout the day, the Punjab government termed his visit to the hospital as a "routine check-up and tests" with only an update coming on his medical condition late in the evening.

According to the statement from the CMO, "Various tests are being conducted to assess the CM’s health. Doctors say he is absolutely fine right now and is not facing any problem. Doctors have found that there are signs of inflammation in an artery of one of the lungs of Mann, which is creating pressure on the heart, due to which the blood pressure starts fluctuating. Some more investigation is yet to be done on this and some blood tests have been done, whose report is yet to come. The CM will be kept under observation tonight and a decision on his discharge from the hospital will be taken after seeing the report tomorrow morning."

In the past few days, the CM has fainted thrice, with the latest being on September 17, when Mann, complaining of low blood pressure, fainted after alighting from the plane at Chandigarh airport after coming back from Delhi.

He was taken to his residence and then on the doctor's advice took the plane for further check-up at a private hospital in Delhi.

Sources said the CM, who was rushed here around 12.30 pm, is stable and recuperating at the second floor of the hospital. Senior officials of the government visited the hospital.