In an elaborate bulletin so far on the health status of Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, the Apollo Hospitals here said on Thursday the “present treatment regimen includes continued respiratory support, nebulisation, drugs to decongest the lungs, antibiotics, nutrition, general nursing care and supportive therapy.”
Besides making brief mentions of providing respiratory support and a case of infection, the release spoke of the Chief Minister’s known history of diabetes and winter bronchitis in inclement weather. the patient continued to improve and was making gradual progress, it added.
London-based consultant Richard John Beale returned to the hospital again on Thursday and examined Ms. Jayalalithaa. “The consensus of all the experts is that the line of treatment given to the Chief Minister should be continued, and she will require a longer stay in the hospital.”
She was admitted to the Apollo Hospitals on September 22 for fever and dehydration, the first press release of the hospital had said.
