Veteran Telugu filmmaker and former Union Minister Dasari Narayana Rao has been hospitalised after he suffered from respiratory and kidney problems, an official said today. Rao was admitted to a private hospital in the city last evening and put on dialysis and ventilator support. "He is suffering from kidney ailment, besides sepsis and respiratory problems. He has been put on dialysis and ventilator support and is positively responding to the treatment," a hospital official told . He will also undergo a thoracic surgery, the official said.He was Union Minister of State for Coal in the earlier UPA government.

Source: Times of India January 31, 2017 10:37 UTC