NEW DELHI: The leader of India's ruling Congress party, Sonia Gandhi, was out of intensive care on Saturday after undergoing successful surgery for an undisclosed ailment in the United States, a spokesman said.
"Sonia Gandhi remained in the ICU (intensive care unit) for 24 hours and has there after been moved out," Congress Party spokesman Janardan Dwivedi said in a statement.
The name and location of the hospital where Gandhi was being treated has not been released but India's Tehelka news magazine said on microblogging site Twitter that Gandhi was at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
A report in the Indian Deccan Herald newspaper, citing medical sources, said Gandhi, 64, had undergone surgery for cervical cancer.
Dwivedi said the Gandhi family was grateful for all the get-well messages sent to the Congress leader, adding she was likely to return to the country in the next two to three weeks.
The Congress Party broke the surprise news of Gandhi's impending surgery on Thursday and has since blocked all queries regarding the nature of her illness.
The Italian-born Gandhi is the widow of assassinated former premier Rajiv Gandhi and wields enormous clout from her power-broking position as Congress party president.
Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2011
Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011
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