Kolkata: Suchitra Sen returned to her Ballygunge Circular Road home on Friday after spending about two weeks in the Intensive Therapy Unit (ITU) of Belle Vue Clinic.

Sources said she was discharged at 9:00pm, following a decision taken by her doctors and family members as her general health condition had “improved”.

But Sen would be kept under observation with nurses, oxygen support and nebulisation equipment, they added.

The screen icon-turned-recluse, who celebrated her 79th birthday three months ago, was admitted to the ITU of Belle Vue on June 20 with severe respiratory distress, caused by a bacterial infection.

BDST: 1121HRS, JULY 3, 2010