The condition of popular Malayalam comedian Jagathy Sreekumar, who underwent an emergency surgery at Malabar Institute of Medical Sciences in Kozhikode after suffering serious injuries in a road accident, is stable and he is responding to treatment, doctors attending on him said on Sunday.

"The condition of Sreekumar is stable. He is holding on and responding to medicines well and that is a good sign," Dr. Abdulla Cheriakkat told reporters. However, the 61-year old actor, who suffered multiple injuries in chest, abdomen, legs, would continue to remain on ventilator support for another 48 hours.

Jagathy suffered the injuries when his car, heading to Kodagu in Karnataka for the shoot of a new movie, rammed into the road median and overturned at nearby Tenhippalam in wee hours of Saturday. He underwent an abdomen surgery to arrest internal bleeding.

A CT scan of brain revealed there was no bleeding. However, kidney functioning has been impaired since the muscles in the abdomen were damaged. The actor also suffered damage to muscles in the legs, neck and chest, he said.