Day Before Cardiac Arrest, AIIMS Team Said Jayalalithaa Fully Fit

The 68-year-old Jayalalithaa was admitted to the hospital on 22 September for fever and dehydration. (Photo Credit: Reuters)

Apollo Hospitals said Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa suffered a cardiac arrest on Sunday evening, ANI reported. She is being treated and monitored by experts.

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The news comes just hours after AIADMK said Jayalalithaa will return home "soon" as an AIIMS expert team has confirmed that she has completely recovered after over two months of hospitalisation.

The AIIMS doctors visited the hospital yesterday (Saturday) and after finding her health, they shared the good news with us that Amma has completely recovered.

C Ponnaiyan, Party Spokesperson

The team, comprising Dr G Khilnani, Professor, Department of Pulmonology Medicine, Dr Anjan Trikha, Professor of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, and Dr Nitish Nayak, Professor, Department of Cardiology, has been visiting the hospital regularly ever since the 68-year-old AIADMK supremo was admitted on 22 September.

Ponnaiyan said the Chief Minister was doing "physical exercises" and undergoing physiotherapy, was eating food on her own and advising officers on issues related to government and party activities.

Currently, she is undertaking physical exercises as she has been in hospital for more than 60 days. Specialists from Mount Elizabeth hospital (Singapore) are also providing physiotherapy to her. She will return home soon.

Jayalalithaa was hospitalised on 22 September after she complained of fever and dehydration. The hospital, which had been issuing bulletins on her health status, has said she was being treated for infection.

Apollo Hospitals Chairman Dr C Prathap Reddy had recently said that Jayalalithaa was in good health and was speaking using a valve attached to the tracheotomy tube.

(With inputs from ANI)