NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s incisions or stitches will be removed
on Sunday.

Singh, who was discharged from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences exactly a week ago, after undergoing a coronary bypass surgery for the second time, will also undergo a complete health check up on Sunday.

Dr Ramakant Panda from the Asian Heart Institute, who conducted the redo bypass surgery on Singh, arrived in Delhi on Saturday. He will remove Singh’s incisions at the PM’s residence.

The PM will not need fresh admission in the hospital for the review. Singh had spent nine days in AIIMS for his surgery.

A joint team of surgeons from Mumbai’s AHI and AIIMS had conducted a 12-hour-long surgery on Singh to clear five arterial blockages.

The 76-year-old PM, who has been working from home, will be able to fully attend to official matters from February 22. But he will require a minimum of four weeks to fully recuperate, a doctor said.

Doctors told TOI, “Till the PM’s surgical incisions are fully healed, only his family members and key officials will be allowed to meet him.”

The PM’s personal physicians, Dr Nitish Naik, Dr Ambuj Roy and Dr Sandeep Seth, have been taking turns to be by his side constantly over the past week.

At present, Singh is undergoing cardiac rehabilitation under the guidance of AHI’s Dr Ashish Contractor.

The PM’s diet is also being supplemented with high intake of proteins and carbohydrates. Singh had undergone his first coronary bypass surgery in UK in 1990 and an angioplasty in 2004 at Escorts Heart Research Centre.