Chennai: DMK president M Karunanidhi is stable and well, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister K Palaniswami said Monday after visiting the Kauvery hospital here to enquire about the leader’s health.
DMK workers continued to swarm the hospital premises, where Karunanidhi is being treated at the ICU for the third consecutive day, here despite police asking them to avoid crowding the area and party leader M K Stalin appealing for calm and cooperation with police in maintaining law and order.
“DMK chief’s health condition is stable. He is well. A medical team is attending on him. Me and deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam along with DMK party working president M K Stalin and Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi visited him in person,” Palaniswami told reporters after visiting Karunanidhi.
State ministers, including Law Minister C Ve Shanmugam, accompanied the chief minister to the hospital.
Last night, a medical bulletin issued by the hospital said,” There was a transient setback in the clinical condition of DMK president M Karunanidhi. With active medical support his vital signs are normalising. He continues to be closely monitored and treated by the panel of expert doctors,”
Police had late last night resorted to a mild baton charge as cadres did not disperse from the area to make way for DMK leaders to leave the hospital at upscale Alwarpet
Karunanidhi was admitted to the hospital in the early hours of Saturday after his blood pressure dropped.
July 18, he had underwent a procedure at the same hospital for replacement of a tracheostomy tube to help him breathe normally.
