KCR Discharged, has Security Downgraded

Hyderabad: Former chief minister K. Chandrashekar Rao was on Friday discharged from the hospital and was taken to his residence in the Nandinagar locality of Banjara Hills in the city. Rao was in the hospital since the night of December 8 after sustaining an injury following a fall at his Erravalli farmhouse in Siddipet district.

The accident resulted in a fracture to his left hip bone and doctors at Yashoda Hospital, where Rao was admitted, performed a hip replacement surgery.  He has been recuperating in the hospital since December 9.

Doctors advised Rao to rest for six to eight weeks and follow an exercise and physiotherapy regimen to regain his strength and return to activity.

Before leaving the hospital, Rao thanked the doctors and nurses who treated and looked after him and greeted his well-wishers who had gathered there. He was accompanied by members of his family as he left the hospital.

Hours afterward, the government said it had withdrawn the Z plus security cover provided to Rao.

The police will provide him Z-category security, which is usually provided to former chief ministers, the government said.