PM takes a walk

MUMBAI, JUNE 12. The Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, recuperating after a right knee joint surgery, today undertook a prolonged walk up and down the seventh floor corridor of the Breach Candy Hospital. He was expected to take the support of a walker for a few more days, hospital sources said.

Mr. Vajpayee continued with his physiotherapy sessions even as the orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Chittaranjan Ranawat, said he was making ``satisfactory'' recovery after the June 7 surgery.

The Prime Minister browsed through ``routine files'' and was in pleasant mood watching television and reading newspapers, a PMO spokesperson said.

The BJP city unit chief, Mr. Vinod Tawde, said Mr. Vajpayee was likely to be discharged by next week. Asked about the Prime Minister's discharge at a function, Dr. Ranawat quipped: ``the Prime Minister will decide and not the doctors''.

Mr. Vajpayee had a one-to-one meeting with the Shiv Sena supremo, Mr. Bal Thackeray, for 20 minutes when the latter called on him. Buddhist monks held a special service to pray for the speedy recovery of the Prime Minister.

- PTI

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