KOCHI: There is a slight improvement in the condition of actor, script writer and director Sreenivasan undergoing treatment in the hospital for heart ailments. Sources close to him said that he is responding to medicines and has been shifted from the ventilator.

The actor is undergoing treatment at Apollo Adlux Hospital in Angamaly. He was admitted in the hospital on March 30. He underwent bypass surgery on March 31 after an angiogram revealed a blockage in his blood flow.

He was on ventilator for three days after the surgery and developed an infection after removed from it. Following that, he was put on ventilator again.