Manohar Parrikar's condition 'extremely critical': Goa CMO

Ailing Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's health condition is extremely critical, his office said on Sunday.

Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar. PTI Photo (File)

PANAJI: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar's health is "extremely critical", the Chief Minister's Office tweeted on Sunday. "Chief Minister @manoharparrikar's health condition is extremely critical. Doctors are trying their best," it said. The former Defence Minister's health, which has been fluctuating for a year, took a turn for the worse in the past two days. Parrikar, 63, has been treated for a pancreatic ailment since the last one year and has been in an out of hospitals, in Goa, Mumbai, Delhi and New York since.

Chief Minister @manoharparrikar's health condition is extremely critical. Doctors are trying their best.

— CMO Goa (@goacm) March 17, 2019

He is currently being treated at his private residence. The chief minister was admitted at the Goa Medical College for nearly a week last month after he suffered from internal bleeding and treated by a team of doctors from the New Delhi-based All India Institute of Medical Sciences as well as those from the state-run facility. He was discharged on February 26. The senior BJP leader fell ill on February 14, 2018 and was shifted to GMCH, from where he was taken to Lilavati Hospital in Mumbai the next day and later to the US. He was shifted to AIIMS in New Delhi on September 15 last year and returned to Goa on October 14 last year for recuperating at his private residence at Dona Paula. Parrikar attended the budget session of Goa Assembly on January 29 and presented the state budget the next day. On the last day of the session on January 31, he was taken for treatment to AIIMS in Delhi and he returned to Goa on February 5.