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Ailing Hurriyat leader Geelani stable in Delhi hospital

by IBNS 10 Mar 2016, 06:56 pm

New Delhi, Mar 11 (IBNS) Separatist Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who was admitted in Max Hospital in New Delhi on Thursday with heart problem, is recovering and feeling better and the doctors of the Max Hospital, had shifted him from the ICU to the general ward, party spokesman said.

“Chairman Hurriyat Syed Ali Geelani is recovering and is feeling better and the doctors of the Max Hospital had shifted him from the ICU to the general ward”, Hurriyat spokesman Ayaz Akbar said In a statement from New Delhi,

He said that the ailing leader was “comfortable in the night and he had a good sleep”.

"Syed Ali Shah Geelani was brought into Max Hospital, Saket emergency with an episode of syncope (fainting episode).”

“He is at present stable and under evaluation by the cardiology and neurology team of the hospital," said a statement issued by the hospital on Thursday evening.

 Earlier, a Hurriyat handout said the 86-year-old leader  Thursday morning complained of chest pain after which he was immediately moved to the nearby Max Hospital New Delhi where he was admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

 
 (Reporting by Saleem Iqbal Qadri)