Veteran Marxist leader Harkrishan Singh Surjeet was discharged from a Noida hospital on Tuesday, nearly a month after being admitted there following a cardio-respiratory attack. Admitted to the Metro Heart Institute on May 6, the 93-year-old Surjeet had continued to remain critical for some time and also
slipped into coma on May 16. He recovered slowly, coming out of coma on May 19 and was finally
taken off the ventilator on May 21.
"Surjeet suffered from multiple organ failure. He had convulsions, pneumonia and fluid in the lungs, liver and kidney dysfunction and myocardial infarction. Along with this, he developed a picture of septicaemia," said Purushottam Lal,