Rahul Mahajan does not test for drugs: Hospital

New Delhi, June 03 (UNI) Rahul Mahajan did not test positive for any drug in a toxic screen carried out on him, a spokesman for Apollo Hospital said today.

Tests were done for over one dozen known drugs, including cocaine, and all tests were either negative or showed normal levels, hospital spokesman Anupam Sibbal told reporters.

The blood alcohol level also was ''very low'', he informed.

Doctors have, however, not been able to ascertain the cause of Mr Mahajan's condition, he said.

''I cannot comment on what was ingested or what triggered his ill health,'' he said. The Hospital had carried out the standard drug screen which covered known drugs, he added.

The tests for ''stomach fluids'' (poisoning) is not done by us, but by the forensic laboratory, he informed.

Doctors attending on him were happy that though they did not know the cause of his illness, and as such the antidote that was to be given to him, Mr Mahajan's health had made ''significant improvement'' over the last 24 hours, he said.

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