Narayan Rane undergoes angioplasty

Mumbai: Union Minister Narayan Rane underwent an angioplasty at Lilavati Hospital,

Bandra

on Friday, doctors from the hospital confirmed. The senior leader was admitted early on Friday following which doctors performed an angioplasty, a procedure used to widen blocked or narrowed coronary arteries. Physician Dr

Jalil Parkar

said that the 70-year-old minister was inserted with a stent. “He is stable and recovering now,” said the doctor. Sources say he may be discharged in a day or two. Rane’s son Nitesh said his father had been admitted for a routine check up. “His tests were due for sometime and so we decided to get him admitted and complete all the tests today/tomorrow. He will be discharged on Sunday,” he said . Meanwhile, former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh, 72, who was arrested by the ED in November last year, was also hospitalised at

Parel

’s KEM Hospital on Wednesday. Hospital authorities said that he was admitted to the ICU for uncontrolled high blood pressure and chest pain. He was referred by doctors at JJ Hospital for a thallium stress test. However, the stress test is not functional at KEM due to technical reasons, so he will be discharged on Saturday. Deshmukh may have to undergo the thallium stress test in another facility later.
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