Jaya’s last voice recording released
CHENNAI: A recording of late chief minister Jayalalithaa’s voice, telling a doctor that her blood pressure of 140/80 was normal for her, has been made available to the media by the commission probing her death.
When a duty doctor tells Jayalalithaa her blood pressure was “high, it reads 140 (systolic),” she asks “by”, meaning what was the diastolic value. To this, the doctor replies “140/80,” and she replies “its okay for me... normal.”
At the beginning of the 1.07 minute audio, which has beep sounds of the monitors, she coughs and says she can hear a sound, (to denote her breathing difficulty) and it was similar to whistles made by fans in cinema houses. She also tells a man, identified as Dr KS Sivakumar, her physician, that if it was not possible (to download a mobile application to record her wheezing) “leave it.”
In another 33-second audio, which is connected to the other recording, Dr Sivakumar tells Jayalalithaa, who is breathing heavily, that he is recording the wheezing and it was not “very intense now.”
Coughing, she tells him “when it (wheezing) was there, I told you, you said it (application) could not be taken (downloaded).” The doctor says in between that he has downloaded the application (app/to record her wheezing).
Her last voice recordings were made available by the Justice A Arumughaswamy Commission of Inquiry on Saturday, probing the circumstances leading to the hospitalisation and the subsequent death of the leader in 2016.
Sivakumar also submitted a to-do list that covers diet-cumhealth monitoring tasks. Handwritten by Jayalalithaa in green ink,the chart showed she was conscious of her health and food.