Sasikala's health normal and stable: Hospital

Expelled AIADMK leaderV K Sasikala's health condition is now normal and stable butshe will undergo CT Scan and other tests, Director of theBowring Hospital Dr Manoj Kumar H V said on Thursday.

According to the doctor, 63-year-old Sasikala'sCOVID test reports have come out negative.

The former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa'sclose aide, who is serving her jail term at the ParappanaAgrahara Prison here, had complained of fever andbreathlessness on Wednesday, a week before her release.

She was shifted from the prison and admitted to theBowring and Lady Curzon Medical College and ResearchInstitute, also known as Bowring Hospital.

Sasikala's oxygen saturation level was 80 (againstthe normal of 95 and above) on Wednesday evening when she wasadmitted to the hospital.

''She had breathlessness.Before that she had a fever.

Accordingly we gave her treatment.Now her oxygen saturationlevel is normal, which is 96.Her condition is stable now,''Kumar told reporters.

According to him, she took a stroll in the morning.

The doctor said she has been sent to the VictoriaHospital for the CT Scan and once the tests are done, she willbe brought back to the Bowring Hospital.

Prior to it, she had undergone Rapid Antigen andRT-PCR tests which showed her COVID-19 reports negative, Kumarsaid.

Sasikala's nephew and Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagamgeneral secretary T T V Dhinakaran, who rushed to Bengaluru onlearning about her illness, told reporters she was stable.

''I got the reliable information that her health isstable.Doctors are looking after her very well.Good care isgiven.They are monitoring her,'' Dhinakaran said.

According to him, the RT-PCR tests show a negativeCOVID-19 report and hence the doctors decided to conduct someother tests on her.

Sasikala, lodged at the Parappana Agrahara Prisonhere, was sentenced to four years imprisonment in February2017 in the Rs 66 crore disproportionate assets case.

Her illness comes at a time when she is just sixdays away from her release from prison on January 27.PTI GMSBNWELCOME GMSBNWELCOME