New Delhi: Legendary singer-composer Bhupen Hazarika, undergoing treatment at a Mumbai hospital since June 29, is stable now, doctors attending to him said on Monday.
“Bhupenda is quite stable now though we have kept him on ventilator as his chest infection has not subsided yet,” Dr S Goyal, who is treating the 86-year-old Dada Saheb Phalke Award winner at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, told PTI on phone.
“He is able to open his eyes, his reflexes are okay and we hope to remove the ventilator support in two-three days,” he said.
According to a spokesperson of the hospital, the singer’s health has shown considerable improvement since he was admitted to the ICU after he complained of breathlessness and drowsiness.
Considered as perhaps the only living balladeer in the country, composing his own lyrics and music, Hazarika had lent his voice to the just-released film Gandhi To Hitler, where he sang Mahatma Gandhi’s favourite bhajan Vaishnav jan. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest living cultural communicators of South Asia. (PTI)
