Jyoti Basu BP dropped suddenly

The blood pressure of critically ill CPM patriarch Jyoti Basu dropped suddenly late on Friday night with the hospital authorities summoning the former chief minister's family, an attending doctor said."Basu's family members were called as his blood pressure abruptly dropped. A new medicine was administered and his condition stabilised to a certain extent," Dr Ranjan Sarker, a nephrolgist on the medical board at the AMRI Hospital told reporters.

 Sarker said that he consulted his counterpart at AIIMS, New Delhi D M Bhowmick and took his advice.Basu, he said, was on full ventilation and full life support. The report of the CPM leader's dialysis was satisfactory, he said.The doctors would monitor Basu for the entire night and a review meeting will be held in the morning, he said.Basu's son, Chandan, his wife Rakhi and other family members arrived at the hospital after being summoned.