Actor Sreenivasan critical, put on ventilator after heart surgery

Malayalam actor and director Sreenivasan is hospitalised and has been put on a ventilator after complaining of chest pain on Wednesday. Reportedly, he was admitted to the hospital last week after he complained of chest pain, following which he underwent bypass surgery. After the surgery, he was shifted to the ventilator for three days.

The latest reports suggest that the actor is responding well to the medicines, and hence has been shifted from ventilator support to is now intensive care unit. Meanwhile, Sreenivasan turned 66 this week. Incidentally, he was confined to the hospital bed when he celebrated his 66th birthday on Monday.