Varavara shifted to Nanavati Hosp
Mumbai: Poet and Elgar Parishad case accused Varavara Rao, a Covid-19 patient, was on Sunday shifted from the state-run St George Hospital to the Nanavati Hospital in Mumbai for neurological and urological treatment. During medical treatment at the St George Hospital, doctors found the 80-yearold’s condition to be stable but also observed he has neurological problems.
Poet and Elgar Parishad case accused Varavara Rao, a Covid-19 patient, was on Sunday shifted from the state-run St George Hospital to the Nanavati Hospital in Mumbai for neurological and urological treatment. During medical treatment at the St George Hospital, doctors found the 80-year-old’s condition to be stable but also observed he has neurological problems
Neurologists from the state-run JJ Hospital checked him on Friday and he was diagnosed as having delirium.
Delirium is an acutely disturbed state of mind characterised by restlessness, illusions, and incoherence, occurring in intoxication, fever, and other disorders.
According to the officials, Rao responded well to Covid-19 treatment and his chest X-Ray and ECG were normal. He also underwent a CT scan.
Lodged in the Taloja jail in neighbouring Navi Mumbai under judicial custody, Rao was initially admitted to JJ Hospital after his family members and several writers and activists asked Maharashtra government to immediately shift him to hospital for treatment, citing his deteriorating health condition.
His family members had asked jail authorities to provide him immediate medical care, claiming that when he contacted them last week, he was in a “delirious state and hallucinating”.
He is behind the bars for about 22 months and had approached the special NIA court, seeking bail on medical grounds and the prevailing Covid-19 situation.
On Monday, he filed two petitions in the Bombay high court, seeking temporary bail owing to his ill-health and a direction to the jail authorities to produce his medical records and admit him to a state-run or private hospital.