Chennai: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) had deployed a team of senior specialists to visit Chennai five times between October 5, 2016 and December 5, 2016 under the leadership of Dr. G. C. Khilnani, pulmonologist, to treat late Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa.
The AIIMS specialists team visited the Apollo Hospitals following a request from Government of Tamil Nadu. It handed over the five visit reports on the health of Jayalalithaa to the Tamil Nadu government on Monday.
The papers were handed over in New Delhi by V. Srinivas, Deputy Director Administration AIIMS to Dr. J. Radhakrishnan, Principal Secretary State Health & Family Welfare department.
Dr Anjan Trikha Prof of Anaesthesiology department, pain medicine & critical care, Dr. Nitish Naik, Prof of Cardiology, Dr. Nikhil Tandon Prof of Department of Endocrinology, Dr. Devagourou, Department of Cardiology and Dr Rajiv Narang, department of cardio thoracic surgery, were part of the Khilnani-led team.
On March 5, the Tamil Nadu government requested AIIMS to hand over the visit notes of the AIIMS delegation to Chennai for their official records.
The AIIMS reports of four separate visits of its experts to the Chennai Apollo Hospital. On December 5, the AIIMS experts were told that Jayalalithaa had suffered a cardiac arrest the previous evening, around 4.30 pm. She was on life support but there was no neurologic improvement. “All parameters denoted futility of life support,” the AIIMS report said, adding it was decided that the next step would be taken after discussion with the family.
The former CM was declared dead on December 5 by doctors of the Apollo hospital. In between, the experts had visited twice — on September 26, when she had been put on ventilator after suffering severe breathlessness. Her condition had improved after surgery. On October 9, AIIMS experts said, Jayalalithaa was found to have fluid in her lungs and was put on life support. By December 3, she had improved enough to sit on a chair for 20 minutes, but was unable to stand due to muscular weakness.
Receiving the visit notes, Dr Radhakrishnan told reporters in New Delhi “there is no basis to the speculation which has been circulated in the media on late Chief Minister's treatment, he said.
