Former Lok Sabha speaker Somanath Chatterjee suffers mild cerebral stroke; admitted in ICU

Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee has been admitted to a private hospital here after suffering a mild cerebral stroke

Kolkata: Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee has been admitted to a private hospital here after suffering a mild cerebral stroke.

Former Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee. Photo: AFP

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"Chatterjee was admitted at around 8.30 last evening. He suffered a mild cerebral stroke. He has undergone treatment and is presently stable. He is now in the ICU," senior hospital official P Tandon said.

Presently his condition is stable, he added. This is second time in the last six months that 84-year- old Chatterjee was hospitalised.

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