Monmohon Singh

MONMOHON SINGH

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who underwent a successful coronary by-pass surgery to overcome multiple blockages to his heart, is doing fine, has been taken off the ventilator and put on liquid diet, doctors attending to him said on Sunday.

The 76-year-old Prime Minister "is doing fine now. He is conscious. He also met his family and congratulated all the doctors," Dr Ramakant Panda, a specialist of Mumbai's Asian Heart Institute, who led the team of doctors during the surgery at AIIMS in New Delhi, told PTI.

Satisfied with his "improving condition", doctors earlier withdrew the ventilator support to Singh, he said.

"Ventilator has been taken off and he is breathing on his own. This is an important step," Panda said.