CHENNAI: The health condition of DMK president and former Tamil Nadu chief minister M
Karunanidhi remains stable, said his doctors on Monday morning. The nonagenarian leader, who is suffering from a urinary tract infection and other age-related ailments, is being monitored round-the-clock by doctors in
Kauvery Hospital
here.
Chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami and deputy chief minster O Panneerselvam visited Karunanidhi in the ICU of the hospital. "His health is better and stable. Panneerselvam and I along with (DMK working president) M K Stalin met Karunanidhi," Palaniswami told reporters while leaving the hospital.
Ministers D Jayakumar, M R Vijayabaskar and C Ve Shanmugam accompanied Palaniswami and Panneerlsevam.
Tamil Nadu chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami addressing reporters outside Kauvery Hospital (TOI photo by A Prathap)A medical bulletin issued by the hospital on Sunday night said the “vital signs are normalising” after a “transient setback” in his health condition.
Several DMK workers, who assembled outside the hospital on Sunday evening, spent the night there despite being asked to leave. Many of them slept on roadside platforms and road dividers.
As day broke, they started to shout slogans praising Karunanidhi. They were joined by others who came to the spot in the morning.
DMK cadre who assembled outside Kauvery Hospital on Monday morning (TOI photo by A Prathap) Police requested the DMK cadre to cooperate with patients coming to hospital and asked them not to cross barricades.
Using a public address system, a senior police officer appealed to them: “The cadre must know that this is a hospital, and you must behave accordingly.”
DMK functionaries helped police control the cadre.
Isha Yoga founder Jaggi Vasudev and several other VIPs visited the hospital on Monday morning.
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