CHANDIGARH: Famous Indian sprinter Milkha Singh has created a psychologist and his oxygen saturation level has also decreased since he struggles to recover his health, even following having a bout with Covid-19, at the Intensive Care Unit of the PGIMER hospital Friday.
The 91-year-old, that tested negative for Covid-19 on Wednesday and has been changed to the overall ICU, has been closely monitored by a group of physicians.
“He abruptly developed a fever Thursday night along with his oxygen saturation levels dipped.
A group of physicians is tracking him” PGIMER resources said on Friday.
Milkha was”secure” prior to this.
“It has been a somewhat rough evening for Milkha Ji.
But he’s fighting away,” read a statement by his loved ones.
He’d contracted Covid-19 final month along with his 85-year-old spouse Nirmal Kaur, who’d been infected with the virus, also passed out in a private hospital at Mohali on Sunday.
Kaur has been a former federal women’s volleyball team captain.
Milkha was declared to PGIMER about June 3 following his oxygen prices dipped in home after treatment in the Fortis hospital at Mohali for weekly.
The mythical athlete is an four-time Asian Games gold medallist and 1958 Commonwealth Games winner but his best functionality stays the fourth-place end in the 400m closing of the 1960 Rome Olympics.
In addition, he represented India at the 1956 and 1964 Olympics and has been inoculated the Padma Shri in 1959.