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Telangana: On Friday, Former Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao was discharged from the hospital, days after his successful hip replacement surgery. He was admitted to the hospital after a fall on December 8, 2023. Mr. Rao underwent hip surgery on the same day and remained at the hospital to recover.
Former Telangana Chief Minister KCR would go to his residence at Nandi Nagar in Hyderabad from the hospital. The BRS chief on December 8 successfully underwent an operation of left Total Hip Replacement at the private super-specialty hospital here following a fracture due to a fall at his residence.
The hospital authorities then said that KCR is expected to recover in six to eight weeks. Mr. Rao, who was elected as Bharat Rashtra Samithi’s (BRS) Legislative Party leader recently, could not attend the oath taking ceremony of MLAs at the Telangana Assembly and following days of the Assembly session as he was at the hospital.
Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy and some of his cabinet colleagues, TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu, superstar Chiranjeevi were among several leaders and prominent persons who called on Rao at the hospital.
Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had prayed for the speedy recovery of the former chief minister. On December 12, Mr. Rao appealed to people not to visit him at the hospital to avoid inconvenience to other patients and traffic congestion. He also said that doctors have cautioned him that he could suffer from infection aggravating the situation which could prolong recovery to several months.
