Former Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Hospitalised

Former West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has been admitted to Woodlands Hospital with lower respiratory tract infection and Type Il respiratory failure in Kolkata.

"He has been put on non-invasive ventilation, antibiotics, and other supportive management. Necessary investigations have been done and the reports are awaited. He is haemodynamically stable," Woodlands Hospital said in a statement.

A multidisciplinary medical team comprising Dr Kaushik Chakraborty (medicine), Dr Soutik Panda (critical care), Dr Susmita Debnath (critical care), Dr Saroj Mandal (interventional cardiology), Dr Ankan Bandyopadhyay (internal medicine and pulmonology), Dr Dhruba Bhattaacharya (internal medicine and critical care), Dr Asis Patra(anesthesiology), Dr Somnath Malty and Dr Saptarshi Basu (physician and medical superintendent, Woodlands) is closely monitoring his progress, the statement stated.