Spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev underwent an emergency brain surgery at a private hospital in New Delhi.The surgery was carried out on March 17 to remove bleeding in the skull. The 66-year-old spiritual guru is the founder of the Isha Foundation and has launched campaigns like ‘Save Soil’ and ‘Rally for Rivers’ for environment conservation.
At present, the spiritual guru is recovering from his surgery and is showing “steady progress” with consistent improvement in his “vital parameters”, according to a senior doctor. Soon after the news came to the public, several celebrities and eminent personalities posted on social media wishing for Sadhguru’s speedy recovery.
Sadhguru was weaned off the ventilator post-surgery, the statement from Indraprastha Apollo Hospital said, adding he has shown “steady progress and his brain, body and vital parameters have improved”.
The spiritual guru was suffering from severe headaches for the last four weeks, but he ignored the pain and carried on with his normal activities, said Dr Vinit Suri, a senior consultant neurologist at Apollo Hospitals and was advised to undergo an MRI, where massive bleeding in his brain was detected.
The headache worsened by March 15, when he consulted Dr Vinit Suri, the hospital’s senior consultant neurologist, over phone. Suri immediately suspected a subdural haematoma and advised an urgent MRI, it added. The spiritual leader underwent a brain MRI on the same day, and it revealed massive bleeding in the skull.
In a video released on Sadhguru’s social media account, Sadhguru can be seen in a partially conscious state explaining his health condition. “The Apollo hospital neurosurgeons cut through my skull to try and find something but found nothing — empty. So they gave up and patched it up. Here I am in Delhi with a patched-up skull but a damaged brain,” Sadhguru can be heard saying in the video.
Sadhguru was managed by a team of doctors comprising Dr Vinit Suri, Dr Pranav Kumar, Dr Sudheer Tyagi and Dr S Chatterjee and underwent an emergency brain surgery on March 17 to remove the bleeding in the skull.
