Communist Party of India-Marxist patriarch Jyoti Basu was admitted on Sunday to a Kolkata hospital after he fell unconscious at his residence this morning, doctors treating him said.
"Mr Basu had a transient loss of consciousness. He was brought to the AMRI hospital. His condition is stable," Debashish Sharma, Chief Medical Superintendent of the hospital, told PTI. He said Basu, who turned 96 on July 8, was undergoing
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and a medical board comprising three doctors from the hospital was treating him.