<p>The health of Union Minister of State for AYUSH and Defence Shripad Naik has stabilised, but recovery from Covid-19 still far away, a doctor examining the BJP leader said, even as the Congress on Tuesday demanded a daily medical bulletin with the details of the North Goa MP's health to be placed in the public domain.</p>.<p>67-year-old Naik, whose oxygen saturation levels had dropped on Monday, will not be airlifted to Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences for treatment, said Dr Shekhar Salkar, a top oncologist at Panaji’s Manipal Hospital and also a BJP state executive member.</p>.<p>“He is good now. He is stable… He will need a long time to recover. It will not be a fast recovery,” said Salkar, who was accompanying a team of doctors from the AIIMS which had been dispatched to Goa late on Monday to examine Naik’s health.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-news-live-updates-india-world-coronavirus-vaccine-karnataka-maharashtra-tamil-nadu-delhi-kerala-gujarat-west-bengal-bangalore-mumbai-new-delhi-chennai-kolkata-cases-deaths-recoveries-876781.html" target="_blank">Track live updates on coronavirus here</a></strong></p>.<p>Naik tested coronavirus positive on August 12 and was initially in home isolation, but was hospitalised sone days later after his condition worsened. </p>.<p>At the Manipal Hospital, the Union Minister was administered high flow nasal oxygen and plasma treatment after which his health somewhat stabilised.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/coronavirus-live-news-covid-19-latest-updates.html" target="_blank">CORONAVIRUS SPECIAL COVERAGE ONLY ON DH</a></strong></p>.<p>After Monday’s dip in oxygen levels, Shripad Naik’s saturation levels had now stabilised at 95, Dr Salkar also said. Naik has already tested negative for Covid-19 according to a test carried out late on Monday. A second test is expected to be conducted later on Tuesday night.</p>.<p>The Congress meanwhile has alleged that the state and the Central government was trying to create a web of secrecy around the health of Naik and demanded an issue of a medical bulletin detailing the condition of Naik every day until he was hospitalised.</p>.<p>“For the last several days Union AYUSH Minister Shripad Naik is taking treatment in a private hospital. The Goa government and central government has not issued a health bulletin. Shripad Naik is a public servant and a Union Minister. Information about his health should be released to the people. We demand of the state and central governments to issue a health bulletin with details of Naik’s health immediately,” State Congress president Girish Chodankar has demanded.</p>
<p>The health of Union Minister of State for AYUSH and Defence Shripad Naik has stabilised, but recovery from Covid-19 still far away, a doctor examining the BJP leader said, even as the Congress on Tuesday demanded a daily medical bulletin with the details of the North Goa MP's health to be placed in the public domain.</p>.<p>67-year-old Naik, whose oxygen saturation levels had dropped on Monday, will not be airlifted to Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences for treatment, said Dr Shekhar Salkar, a top oncologist at Panaji’s Manipal Hospital and also a BJP state executive member.</p>.<p>“He is good now. He is stable… He will need a long time to recover. It will not be a fast recovery,” said Salkar, who was accompanying a team of doctors from the AIIMS which had been dispatched to Goa late on Monday to examine Naik’s health.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/coronavirus-news-live-updates-india-world-coronavirus-vaccine-karnataka-maharashtra-tamil-nadu-delhi-kerala-gujarat-west-bengal-bangalore-mumbai-new-delhi-chennai-kolkata-cases-deaths-recoveries-876781.html" target="_blank">Track live updates on coronavirus here</a></strong></p>.<p>Naik tested coronavirus positive on August 12 and was initially in home isolation, but was hospitalised sone days later after his condition worsened. </p>.<p>At the Manipal Hospital, the Union Minister was administered high flow nasal oxygen and plasma treatment after which his health somewhat stabilised.</p>.<p><strong><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/coronavirus-live-news-covid-19-latest-updates.html" target="_blank">CORONAVIRUS SPECIAL COVERAGE ONLY ON DH</a></strong></p>.<p>After Monday’s dip in oxygen levels, Shripad Naik’s saturation levels had now stabilised at 95, Dr Salkar also said. Naik has already tested negative for Covid-19 according to a test carried out late on Monday. A second test is expected to be conducted later on Tuesday night.</p>.<p>The Congress meanwhile has alleged that the state and the Central government was trying to create a web of secrecy around the health of Naik and demanded an issue of a medical bulletin detailing the condition of Naik every day until he was hospitalised.</p>.<p>“For the last several days Union AYUSH Minister Shripad Naik is taking treatment in a private hospital. The Goa government and central government has not issued a health bulletin. Shripad Naik is a public servant and a Union Minister. Information about his health should be released to the people. We demand of the state and central governments to issue a health bulletin with details of Naik’s health immediately,” State Congress president Girish Chodankar has demanded.</p>