Minister Bhikhusinh Parmar stable after minor brain stroke: Hospital

Gujarat minister Bhikhusinh Parmar suffered a minor brain stroke on Wednesday. After he was admitted at UN Mehta Institute of Cardiology and Research Centre in Ahmedabad, hospital officials said he was stable and was under observation.

Parmar  is the minister of state of food and civil supply and social justice and empowerment department.  According to a press note issued by the hospital, Parmar was admitted around 9:30 am Wednesday with a diagnosis of hypertension. Following diagnostic tests such as MRI, and brain ECG, it was concluded that Parmar suffered a minor brain stroke.

Parmar’s diagnosis comes months after Gujarat Agriculture Minister Raghavji Patel in February was admitted to a hospital in Rajkot after he suffered a brain stroke. Sources had said Patel was in Jamnagar district’s Beraja (Pasaya) village as part of the party’s ‘Gaon Chalo’ campaign in Gujarat when he felt uneasy, following which he was shifted to the Rajkot hospital after being stabilised for two hours.