Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who is undergoing treatment in the U.S., is responding well, said Rupesh Kamat, personal secretary to the Chief Minister, in a statement released here on Wednesday. Sources said Mr. Parrikar was being treated at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Research Foundation in New York.
A statement issued by the Chief Ministers Office (CMO) had said that “as advised by doctors at Lilavati, Mumbai, the Chief Minister had leftfor the US for further treatment.’’
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Mr. Parrikar was rushed to the Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai on February 15 where he was diagnosed for “mild pancreatitis”, according to CMO.
Mr. Parrikar returned on February 22 to Goa to table State’s annual budget along with a vote-on-account in the State legislative assembly.
Just two days after that he was shifted to the State-run Goa Medical College and Hospital near here for dehydration and low blood pressure, according to an official statement.
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He was discharged from the hospital on March 1, but left for Lilavati hospital, Mumbai for further treatment from where he was flown to US. No official statement about the exact ailment of the Chief Minister has been issued so far.