Celebrated Actor, Soumitra Chatterjee, on ventilator support since Monday. He will undergo two or 3 episodes of dialysis to begin his renal function that doctors remarked as ‘not so good’ on Wednesday. Dr Arindam Kar of Belle Vue Clinic, Kolkata, where the Dada Saheb Phalke awardee was admitted on October 6, said in a bulletin: "Renal function is not so good. So, our team of nephrologists has decided on two-three episodes of dialysis to bring down urea and creatinine which should also improve the consciousness. We would be starting dialysis sometime soon. We will try to restore urine output. Hopefully the dialysis will be for a shorter duration, not prolonged episodes."
Three days after Soumitra Chatterjee was admitted with COVID-19 at Belle Vue Clinic, a premier private Kolkata hospital, he had to be moved into intensive care after he strted suffering from COVID-19 encephalopathy that impacted his consciousness. On Wednesday, it was at nine-ten out of 15 on the Glasgow Coma Scale, unchanged over the last few days. "Barely arouseable" is how Dr Kar had described it in an earlier bulletin.
The doctor, who is a critical care specialist and leading the medical board for Soumitra Chatterjee at Belle Vue, said there was no gastrointestinal bleeding on Wednesday. The actor's haemoglobin and other health parameters like lung function are stable. Oxygen support is at about 40-50 per cent, again unchanged since yesterday.
Soumitra Chatterjee debuted in the Satyajit Ray film Apur Sansar in 1959. Apur Sansar was the third of Ray's Apu trilogy that commenced with the classic Pather Panchali. After that, Soumitra Chatterjee worked with Satyajit Ray in many of his best films and popular cinema, including the detective Feluda series.
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