New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday underwent a heart procedure as doctors at the Army’s Research and Referral hospital installed a coronary stent in his artery to remove a blockage.
Mukherjee, 79, was taken to the hospital in the morning after he complained of stomach problems and related ailments.
Doctors at the hospital put him under observation for a day for various tests during which they detected a blockage in one of the arteries, hospital sources said.
The doctors conducted angioplasty and installed a stent, a small mesh tube that’s used to treat narrow or weak arteries. (PTI)
