India's opposition leader Sonia Gandhi discharged from hospital

India's main opposition Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi was discharged from a private hospital in Delhi on Sunday, more than 10 days after being admitted there with fever, dehydration and shoulder injury.

Gandhi had been shifted to Ganga Ram Hospital, a leading private hospital in Delhi, on Aug. 3, from the Army Hospital, a day after she fell ill during a roadshow in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency of Varanasi in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

She had reportedly sustained a shoulder fracture during the roadshow and also underwent a surgery on her left shoulder at the same hospital. The 69-year-old was to be discharged from the hospital last week, but it was delayed as she had been suffering from an infection.

Doctors said that Gandhi's medical condition at the time of discharge "is stable."

"She has been advised rest and continuation of medicines. Gandhi is likely to visit the hospital for further evaluation of her condition in the coming week," a doctor, who treated her, told the media.

In 2014, she was admitted to a Delhi hospital for treatment of an infection. And in 2013, Gandhi was taken to a hospital for a few hours after she fell ill in the Indian Parliament. In 2011, she went to the U.S. to get surgery for an undisclosed medical condition.

Gandhi is the widow of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, a member of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, which has governed the country for nearly 60 years since independence in 1947. She is also the head of Congress party that lost the 2014 general elections to Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party.

Source : XINHUA