Former Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar collapsed during his morning walk in Delhi on Wednesday and is now in hospital. The 75-year-old lost consciousness for a few minutes. He was taken first to his home, then by ambulance to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, where doctors admitted him to the Cardio-Neuro Centre.
Updated: 12 November 2026, 10:00 IST
Quick Read
- Jagdeep Dhankhar, 75, collapsed and lost consciousness for a few minutes during his morning walk on Wednesday 11 November in Delhi.
- Security staff took him home in a police vehicle. A medical team from ILBS and AIIMS doctor Sandeep Seth attended to him there, then he was shifted by ambulance to AIIMS.
- He is in AIIMS’ Cardio-Neuro Centre under the care of the cardiology department. His exact condition is not known, and AIIMS has not issued any official health bulletin as of this morning, 12 November.
What happened next followed a clear order, as per news agency PTI, which first reported the incident. Dhankhar was out on his regular morning walk when he suddenly fell unconscious. The security men with him moved him home in a PCR vehicle, a police patrol car. Doctors were called to the house. A medical team from the Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (ILBS) came, along with Dr Sandeep Seth, a cardiologist from AIIMS.
After the doctors examined him at home, they decided he needed hospital care at once. An ambulance took him to AIIMS. He was admitted to the Cardio-Neuro Centre, a unit that treats patients with heart and nerve-related problems. Doctors from the cardiology department are now looking after him. Medical tests have been done, sources told the press, but no result has been shared in public.
What AIIMS has — and has not — said
This is the part readers should get right. AIIMS has not issued any official statement on his health. No medical bulletin has come out. No doctor has named a cause for the collapse. So this post does not say what caused it. It does not say he had a heart attack, a stroke, or any other illness. Being in the Cardio-Neuro Centre does not by itself mean any one of those things happened. It means the doctors there are checking both his heart and his brain, which is the normal step after a sudden collapse.
One report, by India TV, says he was admitted after chest pain. Other outlets — the Times of India, The Hindu, and the New Indian Express — all say he collapsed and lost consciousness on his walk. This post goes with the collapse, which most reports agree on, and notes the chest-pain version only as a single report. No diagnosis has been given by any doctor on record.
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His health history, in short
Dhankhar’s health has been in the news before. He resigned as India’s 14th Vice President on 21 July 2025, saying he needed to look after his health and follow medical advice. He had chaired Rajya Sabha proceedings earlier that same day, on the first day of the monsoon session, so the resignation came as a surprise.
In March 2025 he was admitted to AIIMS in critical care with chest pain and had an angioplasty, a procedure that opens a blocked heart artery. Reports this week also say he lost consciousness twice on 10 January this year and was admitted to AIIMS then. One report calls Wednesday’s collapse his fourth such episode in 17 months. That count comes from press reports, not from AIIMS, and this post states it that way.
Since resigning, Dhankhar has lived at a farmhouse in South Delhi. No official post-retirement home has been allotted to him, reports say. He stays out of public life now, and his morning walk was part of his daily routine.
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What happens next
What matters next is a word from AIIMS itself. A medical bulletin would settle the two questions everyone is asking: what caused the collapse, and how serious his condition is. Until that comes, all reporting rests on unnamed sources, and this post says so plainly. Family members and former colleagues have not made public statements either.
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FAQ
What happened to Jagdeep Dhankhar?
The 75-year-old former Vice President collapsed and lost consciousness for a few minutes during his morning walk in Delhi on Wednesday 11 November. He was taken home first, then shifted by ambulance to AIIMS, where he is in the Cardio-Neuro Centre under cardiology care.
What is his condition now?
It is not known. AIIMS has not issued any official health bulletin as of the morning of 12 November, and no doctor has named a diagnosis. He is being examined and treated by cardiology doctors at AIIMS.
Has this happened to him before?
Yes. He had an angioplasty at AIIMS in March 2025 after chest pain, and he resigned as Vice President in July 2025 citing health reasons. Reports say he also lost consciousness twice on 10 January this year and was admitted to AIIMS then.
Desk-original added context
Our own timeline of his health episodes, built from the reports read today: March 2025 — admitted to AIIMS critical care with chest pain, angioplasty done; 21 July 2025 — resigns as 14th Vice President, citing health, hours after chairing Rajya Sabha; 10 January 2026 — loses consciousness twice, admitted to AIIMS, as per press reports; 11 November 2026 — collapses on his morning walk, unconscious for a few minutes, admitted to AIIMS Cardio-Neuro Centre. Our own count: that is four reported collapse or hospital episodes in about 20 months, and three of them — March 2025, January 2026 and now — ended with an AIIMS admission. One fact worth noting: the Cardio-Neuro Centre is where AIIMS sends patients who need both heart and brain checks, which fits a sudden collapse where the cause is still unknown. And one gap worth stating: more than 12 hours after the collapse, AIIMS had still not put out a bulletin — a silence that is itself part of the story, since it leaves every report resting on unnamed sources.
Sources
- The Times of India — Ex-VP Jagdeep Dhankhar collapses during morning walk, admitted to AIIMS (11 Nov, 200 verified)
- The Hindu — Former VP Dhankhar collapses during morning walk, admitted to AIIMS (11 Nov, 200 verified)
- The New Indian Express — Former VP Jagdeep Dhankhar collapses during morning walk, admitted to AIIMS (11 Nov, 200 verified)
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