Former India captain will be ‘”monitored for 24 hours” in hospital
Sourav Ganguly, the former India captain and current BCCI president, is “stable” and “completely conscious” after undergoing an angioplasty on Saturday. Ganguly had been hospitalised in Kolkata after complaining of chest pain, which doctors said was a heart attack.
ESPNcricinfo learned that Ganguly had felt some “uneasiness” in the morning after doing some exercise, and was subsequently admitted to the nearby Woodlands Hospital where Dr Rupali Basu, the MD & CEO, confirmed that he was undergoing a primary angioplasty.
“Sourav Ganguly has undergone angioplasty. He is stable now. He will be monitored for 24 hours,” Dr Aftab, one of the doctors treating Ganguly, told the media. “He is completely conscious. There are two blockages in his heart for which he will be treated. As of now he is stable, we will have a meeting on Monday and then we will decide what needs to be done further, priority is to let him settle down…
