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J Jayalalithaa is being treated for infection with appropriate antibiotics and other allied clinical measures, based on instructions from doctors. The 68-year-old chief minister was admitted to Apollo Hospitals in Chennai on September 22 after she complained of "fever and dehydration."

In a statement, UK-based intensivist Dr Richard Beale, who is at present in London, said he had been keeping in close touch with Jayalalithaa's situation at Apollo Hospitals and had been most encouraged by how well she had been doing.

The Justice A Arumughaswamy Commission probing the circumstances leading to the death of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa has summoned London-based intensivist Dr Richard Beale to appear before it on January 9, sources have said.

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The Justice A Arumughaswamy Commission investigating the death of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa has indicted VK Sasikala, once seen as Jaya’s closest aide and friend. Here’s why the commission found Sasikala’s behaviour suspicious

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Lok Sabha deputy speaker and AIADMK leader M Thambidurai on Tuesday deposed before the Justice (retd) A Arumughaswamy commission probing the death of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa. The deposition was a political slugfest between Thambidurai and V K Sasikala’s counsel Raja Senthoor Pandian, sources present during the proceedings said.

The condition of Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa continues to improve, and the same line of treatment is being continued, said a press release issued by Apollo Hospitals here on Tuesday.

Jayalalitha passed away: Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, who is undergoing treatment at Apollo Hospitals in Chennai, suffered a cardiac arrest on Sunday evening, the hospital said in a statement. Jayalalithaa was hospitalised on September 22 with fever and dehydration.

Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa is on respiratory support and is being treated with antibiotics and allied clinical measures for her infection, said a press release issued by Apollo Hospitals on Monday.

Apollo Hospitals has filed a petition with the Justice A Arumughaswamy Commission demanding that a medical board of 21 experts from across the globe be set up to help the panel to examine the kind of treatment given to former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa.

The Justice A Arumughaswamy commission says it is constrained to indict V K Sasikala after making several observations about her conduct in the days before J Jayalalithaa’s death.The commission says Jayalalithaa sent Sasikala out of her Poes Garden residence in November 2011 after the magazine Tehelka published a ‘conspiracy’.

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A team of doctors, who were involved in treatment of late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, said on Monday that she had sepsis which caused organ failure leading to her death.

The director of Critical Care Units (CCU) at Apollo hospitals in Chennai, Dr Ramakrishnan, on Monday told the Justice (retd) A Arumughaswamy commission that late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa died of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) which led to a cardiac arrest, sources said.

The expert team of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), along with a UK-based specialist, who had earlier examined Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, today visited Chennai's Apollo Hospital again.

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After a condolence meeting at Apollo Hospitals, doctors, nurses and paramedics described how she was sometimes funny, usually cooperative, and occasionally difficult during her 75-day stay. "She would have one spoon for the sake of each of us and one for herself," a nurse said.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's condition is improving, and has been advised to stay on for treatment in Chennai's Apollo Hospital, ANI quoted the hospital's Chief Operating Officer Subbiah Viswanathan as saying on Tuesday.

During the late Tamil Nadu CM Jayalalithaa’s 75-day hospitalisation at Apollo hospitals in Chennai, more than Rs 1.17 crore was spent on ‘food and beverages’ alone. A mere Rs 24.1 lakh was spent as room rent for Jayalalithaa, whereas more than Rs 1.24 crore was spent on room rent of others, which included VK Sasikala, her kin and officials.