Indian Cricket Chief Sourav Ganguly got discharged from hospital on Thursday as a cooking oil company as withdrawn all campaigns featuring the former Indian Cricket Team Captain.
Hundreds of youths gathered outside the hospital as the 48-year-old Sourav Ganguly walked out accompanied by his wife Dona Ganguly.
“I am absolutely fine and hope that I will resume my work soon,” the Board of Control for Cricket in India President and Former National Captain told reporters.
“I also hope to fly soon,” he added.
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Ganguly suffered a heart attack while working out in a gym on Saturday and was rushed to hospital where he underwent an angioplasty operation.
Sourav Ganguly would be on oral medications and will be monitored by doctors and nurses at his home at the moment.
The 48-year-old cricket icon has been declared stable and clinically fit by doctors, but he will have to undergo another angioplasty, likely after two weeks.
“His heart today is as strong as it was when Sourav was 20 years old,” cardiac surgeon Devi Shetty told reporters.
“Sourav can participate in a marathon, fly a plane, or even get back to cricket if he wants without this event being any setback.”
We come to hospitals to save our lives. That has proven true. I thank the Woodlands Hospital and all the doctors for the excellent care. I am absolutely fine. Hope I will be ready to fly soon,” Ganguly said while leaving the hospital, accompanied by his wife Dona and escorted by police. Hundreds of fans waited outside the hospital as well as his residence.
But a series of cooking oil adverts featuring the cricket icon have been pulled off the air because of the incident. Sourav Ganguly says in the adverts that the oils are “heart healthy” as well it added “make immunity an everyday thing by using fortune rice bran oil in all your meals”.
Social media users accused the oil brand Adani Wilmar, co-owned by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, of making false claims about the oil through a cricket hero.
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The company said it was “a very unfortunate incident and can happen with anyone” as they confirmed a temporary stop in the commercials.
“The ricebran oil is not a medicine but only a cooking oil. There are several factors which affect heart ailments including dietary and hereditary issues,” Angshu Mallick, Adani Wilmar chief executive, said in statement.
“We shall continue to work with Sourav and he will continue to be our brand ambassador. We have only taken a temporary break in our TV commercial until we again sit with Sourav Ganguly and take things forward.”
Sourav Ganguly had been the brand ambassador for Adani Group’s Fortune Rice Bran Cooking Oil
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