NCP chief Sharad Pawar undergoes hip replacement surgery

NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Friday underwent a hip replacement surgery in Breach Candy hospital after he fractured a bone close to his hip. According to doctors, he will be discharged from the hospital next week but it will take 4-6 weeks for him to recover fully.

Dr Arun Mullaji, the orthopaedic surgeon who operated on Pawar, said: "The fracture was close to his hip bone. There was no option but to go for a total hip replacement. The surgery took around one and half hours."

Pawar suffered trans-cervical fracture of the thigh bone after he fell from the chair at his residence in New Delhi on Tuesday night. He was rushed to Sir Gangaram Hospital in Delhi. The political leader was later air-lifted to Breach Candy hospital for treatment.

Pawar is in the Intensive Care Unit and under observation. "Due to other medical problems, we have decided to monitor him in the ICU for a day. He will be shifted out of it on Saturday, and if all the required medical parameters are fine, we will make him walk with the help of a walker," added Dr Mullaji.

Pawar will be undergoing rigorous physiotherapy sessions and will take at least 4-6 weeks to get back to routine life, said doctors.

"Depending on his recovery, we will discharge him from hospital by middle of next week, but he will have to undergo rigorous physiotherapy to get back to routine life at the earliest," said Dr Mullaji.