Questions surrounding Jayalalithaa death refuse to die down despite release of medical reports
CHENNAI: The questions surrounding the hospitalisation and death of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa refused to die down even after the state government on Monday released the treatment summary from Apollo Hospitals and a report of a team of doctors from All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
On Tuesday, DMK working president M K Stalin pointed out the discrepancies in the medical bulletins and the treatment summary from Apollo Hospitals and the report from AIIMS.
Speaking to reporters at Kolathur, Stalin said: "On September 25, Apollo Hospitals released a medical bulletin stating that Jayalalithaa was admitted there following fever and nutrition deficiency. It said she would be in hospital for a few days and would go back to her residence. But the AIIMS statement states that Jayalalithaa was unconscious and on life support when she was admitted to hospital on September 22.”
He said there are several discrepancies in the medical bulletin released on December 4 after Jayalalithaa suffered a cardiac arrest and the discharge summary. However, Stalin didn’t elaborate on the nature of discrepancies.
PMK founder Dr S Ramadoss too raised some questions on the hospitalisation and death of Jayalalithaa.
In a statement, Ramadoss said people wanted to know how a person who was seriously ill could affix her thumb impression on the nomination papers of party candidates for three byelections.
Former chief minister O Panneerselvam had said he was not aware of the type of treatment given to Jayalalithaa. But the report released by state health secretary J Radhakrishnan on Monday along with treatment summary and report from AIIMS said OPS was in the knowhow of the treatment. “Which is true," he asked.
“The report also states that treatment was stopped based on the approval of Panneerselvam, health minister C Vijayabaskar and Jayalalithaa’s family (her friend V K Sasikala). “What is Panneerselvam’s response now,” asked Ramadoss.
“What happened to a judicial probe into the death of Jayalalithaa announced by Panneerselvam when he was the chief minister,” the PMK leader asked.
On Tuesday, DMK working president M K Stalin pointed out the discrepancies in the medical bulletins and the treatment summary from Apollo Hospitals and the report from AIIMS.
Speaking to reporters at Kolathur, Stalin said: "On September 25, Apollo Hospitals released a medical bulletin stating that Jayalalithaa was admitted there following fever and nutrition deficiency. It said she would be in hospital for a few days and would go back to her residence. But the AIIMS statement states that Jayalalithaa was unconscious and on life support when she was admitted to hospital on September 22.”
He said there are several discrepancies in the medical bulletin released on December 4 after Jayalalithaa suffered a cardiac arrest and the discharge summary. However, Stalin didn’t elaborate on the nature of discrepancies.
PMK founder Dr S Ramadoss too raised some questions on the hospitalisation and death of Jayalalithaa.
In a statement, Ramadoss said people wanted to know how a person who was seriously ill could affix her thumb impression on the nomination papers of party candidates for three byelections.
Former chief minister O Panneerselvam had said he was not aware of the type of treatment given to Jayalalithaa. But the report released by state health secretary J Radhakrishnan on Monday along with treatment summary and report from AIIMS said OPS was in the knowhow of the treatment. “Which is true," he asked.
“The report also states that treatment was stopped based on the approval of Panneerselvam, health minister C Vijayabaskar and Jayalalithaa’s family (her friend V K Sasikala). “What is Panneerselvam’s response now,” asked Ramadoss.
“What happened to a judicial probe into the death of Jayalalithaa announced by Panneerselvam when he was the chief minister,” the PMK leader asked.
