Two-time Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh was on Monday flown into the city and rushed to the Global Health City here in a critical state.
Currently Union minister for science and technology, Deshmukh’s condition is believed to be serious, given the nature of his arrival and transfer to the hospital. Local police were alerted to the security detail at 4 pm. His special jet finally arrived at 5.50 pm, after which there was frenzied activity between the plane and the waiting ambulance. “His condition is not very secure, that is why it took a long time to carefully shift him into the ambulance,” said a senior CISF official on security detail.
Four days ago, Deshmukh had reportedly been admitted to the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai, but was discharged the same day. At that point, it was labelled a “routine check-up”, but reports started circulating on how he had had been suffering from abdominal pain for a few months now.
Eventually, Deshmukh’s ambulance and security convoy departed for the Global Health City in Perumbakkam around 6.25 pm. Another reason why his condition is believed to be critical is the presence of his wife Vaishali and two of his sons - actor Riteish Deshmukh being one of those who accompanied him in the waiting vehicle. Amid extremely high security and tightlipped doctors, the Congress leader from Latur, was taken straight into a cordoned-off wing in the liver care centre. Hospital sources confirmed that he had been admitted for a liver ailment but were unable to divulge what the nature of his ailment was. Unconfirmed reports suggest that he may be here for some life-saving surgery, that may be performed within 24 hours.
Dr Mohamed Rela, who is a world-renowned expert in liver transplants from the Kings College Hospital, London, is the head of Global’s Centre for Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Liver Transplantation. A pioneer of several liver transplant techniques, he is one of the reasons why Global attracts many patients for complex liver transplant surgeries. Global had done the second highest number of liver transplants in the State - 41 till last year.
However, a source with the TN Organ Sharing network confirmed that neither the hospital nor the government had approached them for a liver or to put his name on the registry. “Being a Union minister, we cannot deny him an organ even if they ask at the last minute,” said the source, but added that the possibility of finding a cadaver whose blood type is a match will be “nothing short of a miracle”.
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