Doctor from UK called in to examine Jayalalithaa at Apollo Hospitals

​Chennai: Apollo Hospitals in Chennai has flown in UK doctor Richard John Beale to assess the condition of Tamil Nadu CM J Jayalalithaa, who has been admitted there for over a week.

According to reports, Richard John Beale, Consultant Intensivist at the London Bridge Hospital, on examining Jayalalithaa said that she was receiving the best course of treatment at the hospital. He will be available to the team of doctors at the hospital over the next two days.

Meanwhile, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Friday demanded that Governor Vidyasagar Rao should take steps to ensure that the true health condition of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa is revealed to the people with appropriate evidence through the media. In a strongly worded statement in Chennai, he pointed out that the Governor had not visited the CM even though she has been in hospital for a week now.

Keeping her health condition under wraps is triggering rumours in social media, he said and added that it would not be improper to release her pictures at the Apollo Hospital to clear the confusion and quell the rumours, especially when reports came out that she was discharging the government duties from the hospital bed.

The state information department had on September 27 claimed the CM had that evening held an hour-long meeting in her Apollo hospital room with chief secretary, advocate general and other senior officials on the Cauvery issue and dictated her speech to be read out at the meeting convened by the Union Water Resources Minister Uma Bharati in Delhi on September 29.