BCCI president Sourav Ganguly to stay in hospital for one more day
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BCCI President Sourav Ganguly will be released from Woodlands hospital in Kolkata on Thursday. According to a medical bulletin from the hospital, it said that Sourav Ganguly wants to stay back in the hospital for one more day. In a previous medical bulletin from Woodlands hospital, the doctor were keeping "constant vigil" on his health situation and appropriate measures are being taken from time to time.The bulletin said that Ganguly’s Echocardiography (using sound waves to produce live images of the heart) done on Monday shows preserved left ventricular function with an ejection fraction of 56 per cent.The medical board will meet on Tuesday (today) and discuss regarding his present health condition. He is currently under the care of Dr Saroj Mandal, Dr Soutik Panda, Dr Saptarshi Basu.
Sourav Ganguly was hospitalised at 1 pm on January 2 with "chest discomfort, heaviness of head, vomiting and a spell of dizziness" while performing physical exercise in the home gymnasium at around 11 am. Following this, doctors had conducted angioplasty on him. On January 2, 48-year-old Ganguly was tested for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which turned out to be negative.
When Sourav Ganguly had come to the hospital earlier, the hospital conducted tests in which he had suffered a mild heart attack and the former India skipper had blockages in three coronary arteries. "He came in good time. One of his arteries had a critical blockage which we removed through angioplasty," Aftab Khan, a cardiologist, told reporters outside the hospital."He has improved, the pain in his chest has reduced. He is stable now. He has to be kept under observation for 24 hours so he will have to stay in hospital."
he private hospital formed a medical board and they were regularly updating the media on Sourav Ganguly’s health.
Ganguly's India redemption
The former left-handed batsman, who retired from international cricket in 2008, played 113 Tests and 311 one-dayers and led India to 21 test wins. Under his captaincy, India won Tests in England and Australia after close to or over two decades. India also managed to win a series in Pakistan for the first time. Under his captaincy, India managed to stage a remarkable renaissance in their cricket following the match-fixing scandal that had eroded fan trust in 2000. India also managed to reach the final of the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup but they lost to Australia in the final in Johannesburg.