When Bengal transport minister Madan Mitra, hospitalised just before the CBI summoned him in the Saradha case, was rolled out of an SSKM wing for tests, a familiar object was waiting for him. An ambulance the minister himself had inaugurated, complete with his photograph on a window and his name emblazoned below it, was parked outside. It is not clear if the minister saw the ambulance he had inaugurated but Mitra boarded another ambulance and was driven to the test centre. Pictures by Bishwarup Dutta

Calcutta, Nov. 24: The medical board set up at SSKM for the treatment of Madan Mitra is yet to identify any ailment that warrants hospitalisation, sources said.

The final call on discharging Mitra, the transport minister who has been summoned by the CBI team probing the Saradha scam, will be taken in a few days, the sources added. Mitra has undergone many tests during his four-day stay in the hospital.

“Most of the test reports have reached the medical board and a decision will be taken shortly,” said Pradip Mitra, the SSKM director. “There was a problem with his creatinine level but now that has been lowered,” he added.

Sources in the board said there was no reason for serious concern over the reports that have been submitted. A psychiatrist and board member is said to have mentioned in his findings that there was nothing amiss.

The sources said some doctors on the board, including a surgeon, had suggested that the tumours on either side of Mitra’s spinal cord did not appear to warrant immediate surgery. The sources said the report of the Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology, a test to investigate lumps or masses under the skin, was yet to reach the board.

“A polysomnography (sleep study) is left to be done to find out the extent of the minister’s obstructive sleep apnea,” said an SSKM doctor. “However, since the minister is already using a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (which helps patients breathe smoothly during sleep), we need to decided whether the test is required.”

In between tests, Mitra today met lawyers, senior officials from his Parivahan Bhavan office, representatives of the state sports council and officials of the Kamarhati municipality. Aides of Mitra, also the Kamarhati MLA, said he asked about today’s Trinamul procession in Calcutta, which was led by Mamata Banerjee.

An Enforcement Directorate official said the central agency had found a letter dated February 2010 in which Mitra’s elder son Swarup had “given his consent to directorship in iCore Global Medicine Limited”. The iCore group is under the ED’s scanner for alleged involvement in deposit-mobilisation.

Mitra has said neither he nor any member of his family is involved with companies running ponzi schemes.