Goa CM Parrikar discharged from AIIMS, flown back home

PANAJI: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar arrived in his home state of Goa on Sunday afternoon from New Delhi, where he was undergoing treatment at AIIMS for pancreatic ailment. Parrikar, 62, was flown in a special flight and later taken to his private residence at Dona Paula near here, in an ambulance. The flight

landed around 2.35 pm at the state’s Dabolim airport and the ambulance was brought out from the gate of the naval enclave INS Hansa, which is a part of the Navy-run airport.

Earlier on Sunday morning, Parrikar was discharged from AIIMS. According to sources in AIIMS, he was in the morning shifted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for a while after his condition deteriorated. But later, the administration decided to discharge him. The state-run Goa Medical College and Hospital near here has made elaborate arrangements at his private residence with a team of doctors on standby to take care of his health.

Parrikar was admitted to the AIIMS on September 15. On Friday, Parrikar met Goa BJP’S core committee members and ministers from coalition partners at AIIMS to discuss ways to ensure his government functions normally during his absence from office due to ill health. Leaders of the ruling BJP and its allies, who met Parrikar separately, had ruled out any change in

leadership in the coastal state.

Parrikar has been ailing since mid-february and has been treated at different hospitals including those in Goa, Mumbai and the USA.