Women physiotherapists from Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital continued their treatment to Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa for the second consecutive day on Monday.
The physiotherapists flew in here on Sunday and began their treatment immediately. The Apollo Hospitals had last week said the Chief Minister was being given passive physiotherapy.
A panel of expert doctors drawn from across the world, including Dr Richard Beale from the United Kingdom, have examined Jayalalithaa since Thursday and held extensive consultations with the team attending to her at the Apollo Hospitals. Two women physiotherapists from the Mount Elizabeth Hospital have also joined the team treating the CM.
Sources in the Apollo Hospitals have been maintaining that the Chief Minister was making “gradual progress” and even thanked Dr Beale and other specialists, including the AIIMS doctors, for helping her recover from her ailment. They had also said that she spoke to them in slow and soft tone.
Weeks since TN CM J Jayalalithaa was admitted to Apollo Hospital in Chennai for ‘fever and dehydration’, the hospital has released its most detailed press release yet, indicating the critical nature of her health. The hospital says that she requires a longer stay at the hospital.
While stating that a “comprehensive treatment plan including appropriate antibiotics, respiratory support and other allied clinical measures are being continued”, the statement says that the leader “continues to improve and making gradual progress”.
The hospital says that it had drawn up a treatment plan based on her “known history of diabetes and winter bronchitis”, which includes respiratory support, nebulization, drugs to decongest the lungs, antibiotics, nutrition, general nursing care and supportive therapy.
The statement also confirms what The News Minute had reported earlier, on the team of doctors from AIIMS being flown in to treat Jayalalithaa. The AIIMS team is said to be in agreement with the line of treatment being given to Jayalalithaa. She is now under the observation of “Intensivists, Cardiologists, Respiratory physicians, infectious disease specialists and diabetologists”.
The hospital had released another statement stating that CM’s health is improving and she is responding well to the treatment.
