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| I'm In Charge, Jayalalithaa Told UK |
| I'm In Charge, Jayalalithaa Told UK Doctor From Hospital Bed
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| INDIA
, 6-February-2017
6:53:56 AM |
| A team of doctors including a UK specialist who treated former Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa after she was hospitalised in Chennai shared the details of her illness and how they attended to her. Doctors at Apollo Hospital said they wanted to "dispel the rumours" that have been swirling about the death on December 5 of the 68-year-old politician, lovingly referred to as "Amma" or mother by lakhs of supporters.
Their interaction with reporters comes as Ms Jayalalithaa's party has decided that her live-in aide, VK Sasikala, should take over as the new Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Asked about the timing of their press conference, the doctors said "this was when the government facilitated it."
Among them was Richard Beale, a UK lung specialist, who said that Ms Jayalalithaa "spoke to me about the food and TV programmes she liked, the rehabilitation and my children." Explaining that she mouthed words and used signs, he said that at one point, he told the Chief Minister, "I'm in charge." She quickly retorted, "No, I'm in charge." She also reportedly indicated that she did not wish to travel to London to be treated, a prospect that the doctors mooted briefly but did not favour.
"We are doctors, not policy makers," said the doctors, when asked by reporters about why information about Ms Jayalalithaa was released sporadically during her lengthy hospital stay. Professing that she was given "the best treatment," the doctors said that she was treated for respiratory illness and died of a "witnessed cardiac arrest" after an infection or sepsis affected her organs.
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