COVID-19 | Congress MP Rajiv Satav on ventilator support

Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Rajiv Satav, who tested positive for COVID-19 last week, is on ventilator support at a private hospital in Pune city after his health deteriorated, said medic

Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Rajiv Satav, who tested positive for COVID-19 last week, is on ventilator support at a private hospital in Pune city after his health deteriorated, said medical authorities on Thursday. The 46-year-old Mr. Satav, a member of the All-India Congress Committee (AICC) and considered a mainstay of his party in the State’s Vidarbha and Marathwada regions, had tested positive on April 22. He was later admitted to the city’s Jehangir Hospital. He has been on ventilator support since yesterday after his condition worsened, said doctors at the hospital. “He has been in the ICU since the past four days and was moved to ventilator support yesterday. A team of doctors are monitoring his condition. He has already been administered both Remdesivir and Tocilizumab,” said Dr. S.S. Gill, Medical Director, Jehangir Hospital.