Bismillah Khan on liquid diet, suffering from weakness
Shehnai legend Ustad Bismillah Khan is suffering from age-related weakness and has been put on intra-venous drip on medical advice at his home in Harha Sarai locality here for the last two days but “his condition is otherwise stable.” “Bismillah Khan is suffering from weakness because of his age and is not eating solid food for the past couple of days,” the 91-year-old Bharat Ratna awardee’s son Kazim Hussain said.
“But there was no threat to his life and his condition was otherwise stable,” he said pointing out that Khan was put on intra-venous drip by his personal physician Nadeem Jaffri two days back and is being attended to at his home.
Hussain also discounted reports that his father’s condition was serious.
Born on March 21, 1916, Khan is a recipient of numerous awards and comes from a family of professional shehnai players of the erstwhile princely state of Dumrao in Bihar.
The maestro, who had financial problems, had been given monetary help by the previous NDA government as also the ruling UPA alliance at the Centre.
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