Doctors Concerned Over Sai Baba's Sluggish Recovery

Sai Baba's slow and sluggish recovery worries doctors treating him. Sai Baba is undergoing treatment for past 16 days at the Sri Sathya Sai Baba Institute of Higher Medical Sciences at Puttaparthi in Andhra Pradesh.

"His response to the treatment is positive, but sluggish, which is a bit of a cause for worry for the team of doctors attending on him. He continues to be in a critical state of health," Hospital Director A N Safaya said.

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Safaya's statement assumes importance as none of the doctors on the panel had so far expressed any concern over Baba's condition.

They had repeatedly maintained that "he is critical but responding well."

A Deccan Herald report that the panel of doctors treating him was of the opinion now that his response to the treatment was not satisfactory.

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The kidneys are two bean-shaped organs, each about the size of a fist, and are located just below the rib cage, one on each side of your spine.

Healthy kidneys filter about half a cup of blood every minute, removing wastes and extra water to make urine. The urine flows from the kidneys to the bladder through two thin tubes of muscle called ureters, one on each side of your bladder. The bladder stores urine. The kidneys, ureters, and bladder are partof the urinary tract.

kidneys remove wastes and extra fluid from your body. Kidneys also remove acid that is produced by the cells of your body and maintain a healthy balance of water, salts, and minerals-such as sodium, calcium, phosphorus and potassium-in your blood ().

Without this balance, nerves, muscles, and other tissues in the body may not work normally.

Kidneys also make hormones that help

Control your blood pressure
Make red blood cells
Keep your bones strong and healthy

The Baba is still on ventilator to assist his respiration and intermittent haemodialysis to assist his kidneys.

Source-ANI

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