Former Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha had mood fluctuations and wanted to be left alone most of the times during her stay in Apollo says the doctor who treated her.
She was in fluctuating mood, sometimes she will smile, sometimes she will say “leave me alone,” the Justice A Arumughaswamy Commission of Inquiry said in a recent order quoting the deposition of Dr Shilpa.
In her capacity as a critical care duty doctor, she had attended to Jayalalithaa between October 1 and December 4, 2016.
Shilpa, an anaesthetist, made the remarks on Jayalalithaa’s then health status while giving evidence as a commission witness on the ailments of the late leader.
The commission said Dr Shilpa was cross-examined only by the counsel for first respondent V K Sasikala, a close aide of Jayalalithaa, and not by the counsel for the hospital.
Shilpa had resigned her job in the Apollo Hospitals in 2017.
Anyway, the hospital admitted to the views expressed by Dr Shilpa, the panel said adding, at last, the critical care doctor’s assessment “proved that Chief Minister had a cardiac arrest on the evening of December 4, 2016.” “That is the reason the counsel for the applicant hospital has not put any question even though Dr Shilpa was present before this commission on two occasions,” it said.
Jayalalithaa died on December 5, 2016, and the Commission of Inquiry was constituted the next year by the AIADMK government following allegations and suspicions surrounding her death.
Courtesy: DC
