{"id":301432,"date":"2018-08-15T18:27:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T18:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301432"},"modified":"2018-08-15T18:27:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T18:27:32","slug":"atal-bihari-vajpayees-condition-critical-put-on-life-support-system-aiims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/atal-bihari-vajpayees-condition-critical-put-on-life-support-system-aiims\/","title":{"rendered":"Atal Bihari Vajpayee&#8217;s condition critical, put on life support system: AIIMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299610 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/vajpayee-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/vajpayee-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/vajpayee-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/vajpayee-1-420x420.jpg 420w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/vajpayee-1.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/>Former Prime Minister and BJP stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee is critical and has been put on life support system as his health sharply deteriorated in last 24 hours, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cFormer Prime Minister Atal Bihar Vajpayee has been admitted for the last 9 weeks at AIIMS. Unfortunately his condition has worsened over the last 24 hours. His condition is critical and he is on life support system,\u201d Aarti Vij, chairperson, media and protocol division of the AIIMS, said in a release on August 15.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301433 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/aiims-atal-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/aiims-atal-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/aiims-atal-768x650.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/aiims-atal-696x589.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/aiims-atal-496x420.jpg 496w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/aiims-atal.jpg 880w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited AIIMS in the evening to inquire about Vajpayee\u2019s health. Textile minister Smriti Irani also visited the hospital to inquire about Vajpayee\u2019s condition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Atal Bihari Vajpayee was\u00a0admitted to AIIMS on June 11\u00a0with a kidney tract infection, chest congestion, and urinary tract infection.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Prime Minister and BJP stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee is critical and has been put on life support system as his health sharply deteriorated in last 24 hours, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences said in a statement. \u201cFormer Prime Minister Atal Bihar Vajpayee has been admitted for the last 9 weeks at AIIMS. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1379,2208,453,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301434,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301432\/revisions\/301434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}