As brother questions treatment, Kerala sets up board to monitor Oommen Chandy’s health
Former CM’s brother alleged in a letter to Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday that his predecessor was being denied proper treatment; ‘baseless and painful,’ Chandy has said
Oomen Chandy, 79, has been ailing since 2019 and underwent treatment at Berlin’s Charite Hospital in October. (File Photo) Following a disagreement in former Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy’s family over his medical treatment, the Kerala government on Tuesday set up a six-member multi-disciplinary medical board to monitor the health of the veteran Congress leader who has been admitted to a hospital with pneumonia.
Chandy, 79, has been ailing since 2019 and underwent treatment at Berlin’s Charite Hospital in October. Later, he was admitted to Health Care Global Enterprises in Bengaluru from where he recently returned to Thiruvananthapuram. He is now undergoing treatment at NIMS Medicity, Neyyattinkara.
The controversy started after the Congress leader’s younger brother Alex on Sunday alleged in a letter to Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan that Oommen Chandy was being denied proper treatment by his family. Alex alleged that his brother was being given only Ayurvedic treatment and was being denied modern medicines.
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