Fashion designer Rohit Bal critical, on ventilator at Medanta hospital: Sources

In November last year, Bal was admitted to Medanta Hospital in a critical condition and was visited by old friend Arjun Rampal, as per reports.

Ace fashion designer Rohit Bal is critical due to a pre-existing cardiac condition, and has been admitted to NCR’s Medanta Hospital, sources told HT City. The designer who suffered from a massive heart attack around 13 years back in the year 2010, is reportedly on a ventilator.

Rohit Bal, 62, has reportedly been in and out of rehab and hospitals for alcohol abuse and consequent health problems. In November last year, Bal was admitted to Medanta Hospital in a critical condition and was visited by old friend Arjun Rampal, as per reports.

“Gudda is in very bad shape. He was almost dead in November. The doctors had to flush out alcohol and sleeping pills from his system when his friends took him to the hospital,” a close friend of Rohit Bal told HT City in an interview around 6-7 months back while opening up on his equation with close friend Lalit Tehlan.

Rohit Bal had undergone an emergency angioplasty when he suffered a heart attack in February 2010.

Born in Srinagar on May 8, 1961, Rohit Bal began his career in 1986, founding Orchid Oversea Pvt. Ltd with his brother, and launched his independent collection in 1990. A St. Stephens College alumnus, he studied fashion at the National Institute of Fashion Technology in Delhi.

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