December 13, 2024 21:12 (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Bengaluru techie suicide: Karnataka Police issues summons to wife Nikita, her family members | French President Macron appoints centrist leader Francois Bayrou as new Prime Minister | Congress always prioritised personal interest over Constitution: Rajnath Singh | Jaishankar calls attack on Hindus in Bangladesh 'a source of concern' | Allu Arjun arrested over woman's death in stampede during Pushpa 2 premiere show | RBI receives bomb threat in Russian language, case filed | UP teenager kills mother, lives with body for 5 days | At least six people including a child killed in Tamil Nadu hospital fire | Amid Atul Subhash row, SC says mere harassment is not enough to prove abetment to suicide | India's D Gukesh becomes youngest ever world champion in chess

Karunanidhi admitted to Chennai hospital for medical procedure

| @indiablooms | Jul 18, 2018, at 03:26 pm

Chennai, July 18 (IBNS): DMK supremo M Karunanidhi was admitted to a Chennai hospital on Wednesday for a tracheostomy procedure, media reports said.

The former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu has been admitted as part of a routine medical check-up. The procedure has to be done every six months.

Karunanidhi has been suffering from a lung disease, for which he has been undergoing the treatment for several months now.

He had been hospitalised in 2016 for allergy-related ailments. In December 2016, he had undergone tracheostomy which involves creating an opening in the windpipe to enable breathing.

It is after this that he requires a tracheo tube replacement every six months. In 2017 he had been admitted to hospital  where he had undergone the same minor procedure.

In an official statement, the hospital said that Karunanidhi's tracheostomy tube would be changed. It added that he would be discharged later in the day.

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.