Poor air quality forces Sonia Gandhi to shift out of Delhi on doctors’ advice

Congress president Sonia Gandhi will fly out of Delhi on Friday after medical doctors suggested her to shift out of the nationwide capital in view of the heavy air pollution and poor air high quality that has aggravated her chest an infection, individuals conscious of the matter mentioned.

A senior Congress functionary mentioned the medical doctors additionally suggested her to shift to a hotter place for a while until the air high quality improves in Delhi. “Two places have been identified—the outskirts of Chennai and Goa—for the purpose,” he mentioned.

Sonia Gandhi, 73, can be accompanied by former Congress president Rahul Gandhi or Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. She had made a short look on the Indira Gandhi Memorial on Thursday to pay tribute to the late Prime Minister on her 103rd delivery anniversary.

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“Mrs Gandhi has chronic chest infection for over a month now and it is not improving because of hazardous air quality in Delhi. The heavy pollution has aggravated her asthma and her chest condition. Accordingly, doctors advised her to shift out of Delhi till air quality improves,” mentioned the functionary on the situation of anonymity.

Sonia Gandhi was admitted to the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi on July 30 after chairing a gathering of the celebration’s Rajya Sabha members. “She has been under heavy medication pursuant to her discharge from hospital in August,” added the functionary.

On September 12, Sonia Gandhi, accompanied by Rahul Gandhi went to the United States for a number of days for her routine medical check-up. The two missed the monsoon session of Parliament from September 14 to 23.

Before leaving for the United States, Sonia Gandhi had carried out main organisational modifications, reconstituted the Congress Working Committee (CWC) and her crew of workplace bearers, and likewise fashioned a particular panel to assist her in organisational and operational issues.

Sonia Gandhi goes out of Delhi at a time when there are rumblings within the Congress over the debacle in Bihar meeting elections and bypolls in a number of states with the group of 23 dissenters, who had written a letter to the celebration chief in August this yr, looking for organisational overhaul, calling for introspection over electoral setbacks.