Cuttack: Eminent poet Jayanta Mahapatra has been admitted to SCB Medical College and Hospital in Odisha’s Cuttack after fainting in a washroom while attending a programme in Baripada on Monday.
Sources said the 94-year-old was suffering from an upset stomach. “He is responding to treatment and his condition has improved. He is conscious and communicating,” said Head of the Medicine Department Jayant Panda.
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Mahapatra is the first Indian writer in English to receive the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1981 for ‘Relationship’. In June last year, he was hospitalised after testing positive for COVID-19.
