AIIMS expert team confirms Jaya has recovered: AIADMK

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa will return home “soon” as an AIIMS expert team has confirmed that she has completely recovered after over two months of hospitalisation, the ruling AIADMK said on Sunday.

“The AIIMS doctors visited the hospital yesterday(Saturday) and after examining her (Jayalalithaa’s) health, they shared the good news with us that Amma has completely recovered,” party spokesperson C Ponnaiyan said.

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 September 22.

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,” he said.

Jayalalithaa was hospitalised on September 22 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. GUWAHATI: Assam farmer Jintu Bora could well be the rustic version of Gujarat’s Mahesh Shah who declared `13,860 crore under the income-tax disclosure scheme.

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