BENGALURU: Siddaganga Mutt senior pontiff
Shivakumara Swami
, who is battling lung infection, has been put on an oxygen mask. The 111-year-old seer was shifted to Siddaganga Mutt hospital in Tumakuru late Thursday evening.
On Thursday, a team of doctors from BGS Gleneagles Global Hospitals, Bengaluru and an infectious diseases specialist from Dr Rela Institute and Medical Centre, Chennai, were in the mutt to treat the seer.
“The swamiji has bacterial infection in the lungs and is responding to treatment,” said Dr Paramesh S from Siddaganga hospital, who is the seer’s personal doctor.
He said the seer is suspected to be suffering form
hypoproteinemia
, a condition where protein levels are abnormally low. “Albumin levels in his blood are low,” said Dr Paramesh. A ventilator is on standby at the mutt. The seer had undergone liver bypass surgery and 10 liver tube stents were removed on December 8 at Dr Rela Institute and Medical Centre. He was brought back to the mutt on December 19.
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