Amar Singh needs psychiatry consultaion: AIIMS tells court

NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha MP Amar Singh, arrested for his alleged role in the 2008 cash-for-vote scam, needs psychiatry consultation for his "anxiety and restlessness", All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) told a Delhi court today in its medical report.

Singh, in judicial custody, was admitted in AIIMS on September 12 following complications related to post-renal transplant, urinary tract infection, diarrhoea, diabetes, dehydration, hypothyroid and hypertension.

"For his anxiety and restlessness a psychiatry consultation has also been sought," AIIMS said in its medical report submitted before Special Judge Sangita Dhingra Sehgal.

The premier health institute has told the court that Singh, who had undergone a kidney transplant in 2009, was suffering from multiple health problems and was prone to infections.

It said "the S Creatinine is fluctuating between 1.3-1.6 mg/dl (normal for him is 0.8-0.9 mg/dl). He (Amar Singh) has persistent tachycardia (heart rate exceeding normal range).

"He continues to have vomitting and diarrhoea for which the gastroenterologist has suggested automatic function tests and endoscopy with mucosal biopsy," the report said.

AIIMS said in its report that any kidney transplant patient, showing more than 30 per cent acute rise in S Creatinine level, needs hospitalisation.