AIIMS hands over Jayalalithaa's medical report to TN govt
AIIMS Deputy Director (Administration) V Srinivas said that the state overnment had on Sunday sought the visit notes of the delegation for its official records.
7 March 2017 12:52 AM IST
The AIIMS on Monday handed over the medical report by its doctors of late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa to the state government.
The report contains the analysis of Jayalalithaa's health condition by the doctors of the premier institute during their five visits to Chennai.
AIIMS Deputy Director (Administration) V Srinivas said that the state government had on Sunday sought the visit notes of the delegation for its official records.
The move assumes significance in the backdrop of doubts being raised from different quarters over the former AIADMK chief's death on December 5.
Srinivas handed over the papers to the Principal Secretary of Health of Tamil Nadu, Dr J Radhakrishnan, here on Monday.
"On the request of the Tamil Nadu government for expert medical advise, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) had deployed a team of senior specialists to visit Chennai five times between October 5 and December 6, 2016.
"The team was led by Dr G C Khilnani, Professor in the department of pulmonology," Srinivas said.
The Tamil Nadu government had on Sunday rejected former chief minister and rebel AIADMK leader O Panneerselvam's claims of foul play in the treatment of Jayalalithaa, an allegation which has been dismissed by state Health Minister C Vijayabaskar.
The opposition DMK too has approached the Madras High Court seeking a comprehensive probe into the death of Jalalalithaa.
Twelve AIADMK MPs, belonging to the O Panneerselvam group, had met President Pranab Mukherjee in New Delhi on February 28 and handed over a petition seeking a probe into the medical treatment provided to Jayalalithaa.
'Jaya died of multiple factors, had several medical problems'
The Apollo Hospitals here has listed ventricular fibrillation, infective endocarditis and acute respiratory distress syndrome as the cause of death of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa.
The hospital's treatment summary, released by the state government on Monday, listed the three factors as the cause of her death.
The report said her past medical history was significant for multiple medical problems including obesity, hypertension, poorly controlled hypothyroidism, irritable bowel syndrome with chronic diarrhoea and chronic seasonal bronchitis.
"She was also on a tapering dose of oral steroids for atopic dermatitis. There was a history of intermittent fever for 5-7 days with increased frequency of bowel movement."
Jayalalithaa was diagnosed with "enterococcus bacteraemia with septic shock and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome" after she was admitted, the report said.
She had infective "endocarditis of calcified mitral valve with valve perforation, Mitral Regurgitation and first degree AV block," it said.
Also, "Heart failure with preserved systolic function, uncontrolled Type-2 Diabetes mellitus, hypertension, Hypothyroidism, Asthmatic bronchitis and probable sleep apnoea, a history of irritable bowel syndrome and atopic dermatitis" were listed under the diagnosis column of the report.
Giving a list of 18 doctors which formed the critical care consultants group of Apollo, the report said externally, expert opinion was taken from 13 doctors, which included an AIIMS team. Besides, the AIIMS team led by G C Khilnani, UK-based Richard Beale and 12 other doctors working with Mumbai-based hospitals, (Tata Memorial and P D Hinduja), US-based John Hopkins Hospital and another expert of an American hospital were those who had given opinions on treatment.
Beale at one point of time had said that considering her overall condition she carried a mortality (risk) of 40 per cent. After withdrawal of ECMO Jayalalithaa was declared dead.
Next Story
