NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar hospitalised in Pune due to mild dehydration

PUNE: NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar was admitted to a private hospital in Pune on Sunday after experiencing mild dehydration, doctors said.The 85-year-old Rajya Sabha MP is stable, they added.“He has been admitted to the Ruby Hall Clinic for mild dehydration and requires intravenous fluids. His condition is stable. He will remain in the hospital for two days and is expected to be discharged thereafter,” Dr Purvez Grant, chief cardiologist and chairman and managing trustee of the hospital, said in a statement.Dr Grant and Dr Abhijit Lodha, consultant physician at the hospital, are overseeing his treatment.Earlier, the former Union minister had been admitted to the same hospital on February 9 due to a chest infection and was discharged on February 14.