The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president, Sourav Ganguly underwent a successful angioplasty at the Woodlands hospital in Kolkata on Thursday as the doctors managed to successfully insert two more stents. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was also present at the hospital to check on the BCCI chief’s health, who had complained of chest pain on Wednesday and was taken to the Apollo Gleneagles hospital in Kolkata for a cardiac checkup.
After her meeting with Ganguly, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said that Ganguly’s operation was successful and he got two new stents inserted. The Bengal CM also said that Sourav Ganguly was awake after the surgery and spoke to her. Ganguly’s wife Dona congratulated the doctors for a successful operation. The doctors at the hospital, in a media bulletin, had revealed that all his vital parameters were stable.
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Informing the same, Apollo said, “Sourav Ganguly, 48 years old, male has come for a checkup of his cardiac condition. There is no change in his parameters since his last hospitalization and his vital parameters are stable.”
A senior doctor part of the panel treating a former India skipper said in the morning that he slept well during the night and even had a light breakfast this morning.
Talking about the same, a senior doctor commented, “Mr. Ganguly slept well all night. He had a light breakfast this morning. A series of tests will be conducted on him today to decide on the next course of treatment.”
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Earlier in January, Ganguly was diagnosed with ”triple vessel disease” and had a stent inserted in a coronary artery as he had suffered a mild heart attack. After spending five days at the hospital, the BCCI president was discharged on January 7 after a team of doctors had termed him clinically fit.