Sasikala Natarajan, left standing, a close friend of India's Tamil Nadu state former Chief Minister Jayaram Jayalalithaa, wipes her tears next to Jayalalithaa's body wrapped in the national flag and kept for public viewing outside an auditorium in Chennai, India, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016. Jayalalithaa, the hugely popular south Indian actress who later turned to politics and became the highest elected official in the state of Tamil Nadu, died Monday. She was 68. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)
Putting speculations at rest against late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa death, specialists who were treated her at Apollo Hospitals in Chennai said that the former chief minister died due to multiple organ failure.
Addressing a press conference, Dr Richard Beale of UK, accompanied by other doctors said “Best treatment was given to Jayalalithaa, but her diabetes led to complications.”
“For a period, she was treated with non-invasive ventilation and her initial condition improved somewhat, but as sepsis progressed, it was necessary for her to be put on ventilator. Later, she was fully interactive,” Beale said.
He added “There was no amputation and no transplantation either.”
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He explained that unlike popular belief, sepsis can develop ‘extremely quickly’, as in her case.
When asked if Jayalalithaa was conscious when she signed the Election Commission’s papers of her party nominee for November 19 bypoll to Thirupparankundram, the doctors said she was very much awake.
“She was conscious when she signed the Election Commission papers, she read the papers. Since she was very weak, she could not sign the paper and made the thumb impression instead,” Apollo doctors said.