NEW DELHI: Doctors completed open-heart surgery Saturday on India's 76-year-old Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and later shifted him to an intensive care unit, Indian media reported.
The operation was carried out at the premier state-run All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. A team of 11 doctors from the Asian Heart Institute flew from Mumbai for the operation, said Vaishnav.
Singh, a diabetic who walks regularly, underwent heart bypass surgery in Britain in 1990 and angioplasty in 2003.
He has largely been in good health since he was sworn in as prime minister in May 2004 but recently underwent prostate surgery and has also had cataract treatment. India is due to hold general elections before May, and the ruling Congress Party has so far said the quietly spoken economist and politician will head the party into the polls.
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