Pranab Mukherjee's health declines: Hospital

The Army's Research and Referral Hospital informed that the former President Pranab Mukherjee's health condition declined on Monday as he continues to remain deeply camatose and on ventilator support.

New Delhi: The condition of former President Pranab Mukherjee declined on Monday morning and he has suffered a septic shock due to his lung infection, the Army's Research and Referral Hospital said.

Doctors attending on the 84-year-old Mukherjee said he continues to be in a deep coma and is on ventilator support. Mukherjee is being managed by a team of specialists, they added.

The former president was admitted to the hospital in Delhi Cantonment on August 10 and was operated the same day for removal of a clot in his brain. He later developed a lung infection.

"There has been a decline in the medical condition of Pranab Mukherjee since yesterday. He is in septic shock due to his lung infection and is being managed by a team of specialists. He continues to be in a deep coma and on ventilator support," the hospital said in a statement.

On August 21, the hospital authorities had said, "There was no change in the condition of former President Pranab Mukherjee and he remains haemodynamically stable and on ventilatory support."

Mukherjee was the 13th President of India from 2012 to 2017.

PTI report