Milkha out of hospital, to be treated at home

CHANDIGARH: Indian track legend Milkha Singh, hospitalised here for six days for Covid, was discharged on Sunday. The 91year-old, who was hospitalised on May 24, is stable and will be in home isolation with oxygen support, Fortis Hospital said in a statement. His wife Nirmal Kaur, a former Indian volleyball team skipper who was also hospitalised with the virus, was shifted to ICU on Saturday night after her oxygen requirement went up. The hospital statement said, “On request of the family, Milkha was discharged in a stable condition. He is on oxygen and nutritional support. Nirmal Milkha Singh had to be shifted to the intensive care unit last night due to increasing oxygen requirement. She continues to be stable.”