Kolkata June 29 (IANS) Former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee under treatment in a private nursing home here following a cerebral haemorrhage is gradually improving.
"There has not been any further deterioration in his condition. He is gradually improving " Pradip Tondon CEO of Bellevue clinic told IANS over phone.
The 89-year-old was admitted to the nursing home on Monday in a critical condition. He is now being treated by a "big medical board" comprising his family physicians and other specialists Tondon said.
The medical board is led by Sukumar Mukherjee he said.
News of Chatterjee s condition was kept under wraps over the first couple of days following a request from the family sources said.
Chatterjee regarded as an outstanding parliamentarian served as Lok Sabha Speaker from 2004 to 2009.
The 10-time Lok Sabha member was expelled from the Communist Party of India-Marxist on July 23 2008 "for seriously compromising the position of the party" as he refused to resign as the Lok Sabha Speaker after the CPI-M withdrew its support to the first United Progressive Alliance government over the Indo-US Civil Nuclear Deal.

--IANS ssp/in/sac