Ex-PM Manmohan Singh completes the #10Yearchallenge post heart surgery


Mumbai, Jan 22 (IANS): Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who will complete a decade after a successful heart surgery on Thursday, is the unexpected new entrant on the #10Yearchallenge on social media, an official said on Tuesday.

The former PM, 86, was operated for a redo cardiac bypass surgery on January 24, 2009, by a team of medicos led by the renowned Mumbai-based cardiovascular thoracic surgeon and Vice-Chairman of Asian Heart Institute (AHI), Ramakanta Panda.

Five bypasses were performed on Singh, who had already undergone a bypass surgery earlier in 1990, and later a stenting procedure in 2004.

Recalling the day when Singh was operated upon, Panda, who hails from Odisha, said: "At the time of his procedure, Dr. Singh appeared extremely calm. He told me that he has full faith in me as a surgeon."

Today, Panda considered Singh as one of his most ideal and a very good patient, who in the past 10 years "has strictly pursued his health regime and cardiac follow-ups."

Known for performing extremely challenging heart operations, Panda has so far done over 24,000 heart surgeries, 20 per cent of which were considered "inoperable', and enjoys a reputation for achieving results when it comes to red bypass procedures.

When asked about the #10Yearchallenge with Singh completing a decade of having a healthy heart, Panda remarked: "I feel happy as his doctor."

He said that if social media is able to set a real precedent for a healthier lifestyle, "then we should have such challenges more often."

He said on a lighter note how such contests also allow the medicos like him to look back on the complicated procedures they have effectively completed without relapses.

Some other big names on whom Panda has operated in past include Laloo Prasad Yadav, Tarun Gogoi, D. Raja, top industrialists, political leaders and film personalities.

Singh was not the only executive head of government to have undergone a critical surgery while in office.

Before him, the late US President Ronald Reagan had reportedly undergone several procedures for cancer while in office, and the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was treated for a heart condition called supra-ventricular tachycardia.

  

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  • Francis, Shirva/UK

    Wed, Jan 23 2019

    Wish you good health Mr Singh. Honest and respectable PM. India ever had.

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  • G R PRABHUJI, Mangalore

    Tue, Jan 22 2019

    Gentleman and cool. Past and present PM day and night difference.

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  • Jenifer, Mangalore

    Tue, Jan 22 2019

    I am sure its because of his strictly disciplined food habits and lifestyle.

    I remember his daughter writing that he got uncomfortable upon seing even one more vegetable dish on the table apart from their regular daal plus one sabzi meal.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Tue, Jan 22 2019

    India's Most Educated Prime Minister ...

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  • Gangaram, Moodbidri

    Tue, Jan 22 2019

    Not only India's most educated but also Worlds most educated PM

    I wish him happy and healthy life to Mr. Singh

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  • Rathan, Mangalore

    Tue, Jan 22 2019

    Jossy
    He may be well educated PM but was heading the world's most currupt democratic Govt under the guise of coilation compulsion

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  • Bennaje, Mumbai

    Wed, Jan 23 2019

    Really Rathan? Then what do you call chor number one Modi who has so much blood of the innocent on his hand? Are you calling him your God? Likes of you will never understand the difference between a Gentleman and a cunning dictator who successfully managed to cart the chor Modi's from India looting every one of us royally.

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