New Delhi. The health of the country's former Deputy Prime Minister and veteran BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani is now much improved. His latest health update has been released by Apollo Hospital, Delhi. It is stated that L. Of. Advani will be discharged from the hospital today. Advani was admitted to Apollo Hospital on 16 October due to chest infection. He remained admitted in ICU. He was treated under the supervision of Dr. Vineet Suri, Senior Consultant, Neurology and now after improvement in his condition, he is being discharged from the hospital.

Lal Krishna Advani is 98 years old. Due to increasing age they often fall ill. This is the fourth time this year that he had to be admitted to the hospital due to illness. Before this, he had been admitted once to Delhi AIIMS and twice to Apollo Hospital. In June, Advani was admitted to AIIMS due to urinary infection problem. However, he was discharged within a day. After this, Advani's health deteriorated in July and then in August and both times he was admitted in Apollo. Even then his treatment was under the supervision of Dr. Vineet Suri.

On October 16, when Advani was admitted to Apollo Hospital, Union Minister JP Nadda met Advani at the hospital and discussed his health with the doctors. Lal Krishna Advani is one of the founding members of BJP. He was Deputy CM in Atal Bihari government from 2002 to 2004. Apart from this, he has also been the National President of BJP several times. In his long political career, Advani was a member of the Rajya Sabha four times and was elected Lok Sabha MP seven times.