DHAKA: Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa continues to be on life support and is being continuously monitored by their doctors who have been joined by experts from Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences or AIIMS.
J Jayalalithaa’s supporters, who had broken into violence Chennai’s Apollo Hospital a short while ago, calmed down after the hospital statement said on Monday evening, reports the NDTV.
The hospital said reports to the contrary on some TV channels were “baseless and false.”
At the office of her AIADMK, a loud cheer went up as a party flag that was being flown at half mast, was raised again. All the party’s lawmakers and ministers held a meeting there this evening.
Less than hour before, hundreds of supporters, wailing and grieving, threw stones at the police and broke down barricades trying to enter the hospital, where the chief minister is in the Intensive Care Unit after she had a cardiac arrest last evening.
“The situation is extremely grave, but I can confirm that everything possible is being done to give her the best chance of surviving this shocking event,” said British specialist Dr Richard Beale about Jayalalithaa’s this afternoon.
Dr Beale, who has been assisting doctors at Apollo Hospital in treating Jayalalithaa since she was admitted in September, also said in his statement that “unfortunately, and in spite of the progress she had made, her underlying health conditions inevitably meant that the risk of further problems always remained.”
The hospital denied a statement by the chief minister’s party earlier on Monday that she had a heart surgery this morning.
Jayalalithaa was admitted at the Apollo hospital on September 22 and has been there since. Initially, her party said she had dehydration and fever, but doctors later said she had an acute lung infection and was on respiratory support.
For several weeks, the hospital had reported much improvement in Jayalalithaa’s health and said she could decide when to be discharged. Her party said she was directing important decisions and had begun speaking.
On Saturday, the AIADMK had said Jayalalithaa had been declared fully recovered by a team of doctors from AIIMS and would decide when to return home.
BDST: 2139 HRS, DEC 05, 2016
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