The health condition of popular replay singer SP Balasubrahmanyam, who has been admitted to the hospital since August 5, has suddenly deteriorated and he is in extremely critical condition.
An MGM Healthcare medical bulletin, released at 6.30pm Thursday, said the singer was on maximum life support and that a team of experts was closely monitoring his health. He stayed on ECMO and other life support systems, the newsletter said.
News that Balasubrahmanyam’s health condition suddenly worsened caused his fans to post ‘improvement’ messages and asked people to pray for his health.
Earlier, when the hospital had said he was critical, the film music industry had organized a joint prayer for his speedy recovery. His condition later stabilized although he remained on life support.
The singer’s state of health, who was admitted to the hospital with mild symptoms, deteriorated for the first time late at night on August 13 and he was put on life support and transferred to the Intensive Care Unit.
On August 19, he was placed on ECMO in addition to the ventilator and a day later, when he remained critical, people from all walks of life, including celebrities and the general public, gathered to pray for his speedy recovery and his condition. soon stabilized.
Towards the end of last month, he underwent passive physical therapy and then “actively participated in physical therapy” and was fully awake and responsive during that phase.
He was attended by a multidisciplinary team, made up of specialists in internal medicine, pulmonology and infectious diseases, among others.
Additionally, the team actively collaborated with international experts from renowned centers in the United States and the United Kingdom who saw a large number of COVID-19 patients requiring ECMO support.
On September 3, the hospital had said he was stable, conscious, responsive, and continuing to show clinical progress, and days later said his condition warranted a prolonged ICU stay that required ECMO and respiratory support.
Balasubrahmanyam, who has more than 40,000 songs to his credit, has sung in languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi.
During the admission, he had intermittent cold and fever symptoms for a couple of days and even posted a video in which he sounded confident.
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