Kolkata/UNI: Former West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, who was hospitalised on July 29 with a lower respiratory tract infection and Type-2 respiratory failure, was released on Wednesday.

Bhattacharjee is returning to his South Kolkata residence from the hospital, accompanied by his wife.

Earlier, a multidisciplinary medical team comprising Dr Kaushik Chakraborty ( Medicine), Dr Soutik Panda (Critical Care), Dr Susmita Debnath (Critical Care), Dr Saroj Mandal ( Interventional Cardiology), Dr Ankan Bandopadhyay (Internal Medicine and Pulmonology), Dr Dhruba Bhattacharya ( Internal Medicine and Critical Care), Dr Asis Patra ( Anesthesiology), Dr Somnath Maity, and Dr Saptarshi Basu (Physician and Medical Superintendent, Woodlands) were closely monitoring his progress in the hospital.