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PM is out of ICU, family underlines
Sikh faith
WSN Network
 New Delhi: Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh is off intensive care and most intravenous
lines for drug infusions, fluids and nutrition have been removed.
From Wednesday, infusions of various medicines and diet will be oral
and non-invasive.
But unlike in ordinary cases, PM will remain in the same
room. The PM’s special room has the most sophisticated intensive
care machines. So it’s not that the PM is being shifted into a new
room. It’s just that his level of intensive care and monitoring is
being changed. He is being weaned off ICU care and will receive
routine care from Wednesday. He is undergoing physiotherapy four
times a day, and a cardiac rehabilitation expert from Asian Heart
Institute in Mumbai has been brought in to design a special regimen
for the PM.
Cardiac rehabilitation can really make a difference and is an
effective way to help patients feel better faster, emotionally and
physically, and get stronger, get to know how to reduce stress and
enjoy life despite having undergone serious surgery.
The PM walked around in his room on Tuesday and his diet now
includes regular meals instead of semi-solid food. On Tuesday, for
the first time, 76-year-old Singh had breakfast with his wife and
daughters.
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PM in hospital, no one attending on
India
WSN Network
NEW DELHI: India's
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is in a hospital, recuperating from a
bypass surgery that involved a major operation. But
New Delhi
did not name an acting premier.
Many must have noticed that Robert Gates, the only member of
the Cabinet who was retained from the Bush administration, did not
attend the inauguration ceremony. Do you know why? He was the
transitory President for the few minutes during which Bush had gone
and Obama had not been sworn in.
America takes no
chances. But in India, the medieval age mentality is at work. If
someone is named a PM for a few days, he may usurp the post in
future. Total indecisiveness was at display. India now has a
PM-in-waiting in L K Advani, wanna be PM-in-waiting in Mayawati,
dreams to be PM-in-waiting in Mulayam Singh and Lalu Yadav but no PM
in attendance.
There is much talk of how soon Manmohan Singh will be back in
office. It is clear that he will not get his full quota of rest.
Pressures of politics need Pranab Mukerjee to be relieved of the
number 2 default position as soon as possible. This is not how
mature governments conduct their operations.
India
is behaving like a monarchy where Kings suspect that conspiracy is
forever afoot to displace them by poisoning or worse. On the
Republic Day, with the PM in hospital and no caretaker PM, it seemed
India
was still the Delhi Sultanate.
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The PM had undergone multiple bypass surgery at AIIMS on
Saturday to remove five arterial blockages and has been recuperating
in the ICU. His wife Gursharan Kaur and daughters Upinder, Damandeep
and Amrit have been by his side.
Faith underlined
The latest surgery of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has also
shown the deep Sikh religious convictions of his family. Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh’s sisters, who stay in
Calcutta,
participated in long prayer sessions at gurdwaras. Pritam Kaur,
younger sister of Dr. Singh, was elated when told the surgery was
successful.
“Not only at our place of worship, the gurdwara, but all
through the day I have had a prayer for my brother on my lips” she
said in a soft voice. Ms. Kaur said, “I spoke to Bhabi-ji
(sister-in-law) for a short while this morning and again with his
daughter after surgery.” One of the brothers had already reached
Delhi, she
said.
Pritam Kaur and Govind Kaur (eldest sister) stay with their
families at Behala in the southwestern part of the city. Pritam
Kaur’s son Kanwaldeep Singh said the entire extended family had
participated in a two-hour prayer meeting at the Taratala Gurdwara
close to their house in the morning.
“We will go again to the gurdwara to thank God for the
successful surgery,” Pritam Kaur said.
Dr. Singh’s other four sisters live in
Amritsar and
Kapurthala, in Punjab, while two brothers stay in Amritsar.
Many members of the Sikh community in many parts of
India got together
at various gurdwaras praying for a long life to Dr. Singh.
28 January 2009
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