Jyoti Basu hospitalised

Veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu was admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital here yesterday with chest infection as attending doctors said his condition was stable.
The 95-year-old former chief minister of West Bengal was earlier closely examined at his Indira Bhavan residence at Salt Lake by a four-member team of doctors, headed by his personal physician AK Maity, who finally decided to admit him to AMRI hospital for a thorough treatment for his bronchial congestion.
Basu's personal aide said that the Marxist veteran's other health parameters were okay.
Doctors said Basu was taken into the ICCU and an X-ray was conducted on his chest.
"Basu's treatment will start shortly and his breathing problem is not that acute," said one of his doctors Trishit Roy.
He said the doctors considered it was 'high time' for Basu to be shifted to hospital for thorough treatment of his chest infection.
Basu was last admitted to a hospital on July 12 after he fainted at his residence following breathing problem.