New Delhi: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh was admitted to AIIMS in Delhi on Sunday evening after he complained of uneasiness in the chest, hospital sources said.
PTI reports that he was admitted under the care of Dr Nitish Naik, a professor of cardiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), around 8.45 pm. “He is under observation,” one of the sources said.
After first being taken to the hospital’s cardiac care unit, or ICU for heart patients, Singh, who is 87, was later shifted to a private room where he will be kept under observation.
Singh, who is a heart patient, is the first prime minister to serve two complete terms of five years each since Jawaharlal Nehru. He was prime minister of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance coalition government from 2004 to 2014.
He is currently a member of the Rajya Sabha from Rajasthan. His last ‘public appearance’ was on May 6, when he took part in a video conference along with acting Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Congress chief ministers.
With inputs from PTI