COVID-19 positive Haryana Minister Anil Vij shifted to ICU

The minister had earlier said that he had gone to Panipat few days prior to testing positive for coronavirus where he spent 2-3 hours with a BJP leader, who too had tested positive for COVID-19.

Chandigarh (Haryana): Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij, who is currently battling the Covid-19 infection, was on Wednesday shifted to the ICU of Gurugram's Medanta Hospital in a critical condition.

The minister is getting treatment under Dr Sushila Kataria, senior director of Internal Medicine Department at Medanta, sources told a news agency adding that the minister is suffering from lung infection.

However, there was no official response from the hospital.

Vij was admitted to Medanta on Tuesday evening from the Haryana government's Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) in Rohtak where he was admitted on Saturday and had received convalescent plasma therapy. The institute had stated that Vij had moderate Covid-19 with bilateral viral pneumonia.

The sources told that his family insisted to shift him to the private facility in Gurugram from PGIMS after they found his health condition was not improving.

Earlier, he was being treated at the Civil Hospital in Ambala district.