Former Maharashtra chief minister and Union minister for science and technology, Vilasrao Deshmukh, died of liver failure and multiple organ failure at the Global Health City hospital in Chennai on Tuesday afternoon.
Doctors attending on him confirmed that the end came at 1.40 pm
"The death came due to progression of disease," one of the doctors attending on the 67-year old Deshmukh said.
The union minister was airlifted in an ambulance last Monday from Breach Candy hospital in Mumbai for admission to the Chennai's super specialty hospital on last Monday evening.
He was admitted to the Chennai hospital since last Monday, but his condition had been critical all through his stay, though doctors were hopeful that he would stabilize.
In fact, doctors were planning to conduct liver transplant operation but it could not be carried out as his vital parameters were not stable to the extent that the surgeons wanted, a hospital source said.
The body will be flown to Mumbai for last rites, hospital sources said.
His immediate family members, wife and two sons -- including film star son Ritesh -- were at the hospital through his nine-day long stay in Chennai.
Edited By Cen Fox Post Team
