Sasikala stable, being treated as per Covid protocols: Hospital

Bengaluru, Jan 22 : Late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaaa’s key aide V.K. Sasikala, who tested Covid positive just ahead of her release from jail, is being treated with the standard protocol, a hospital bulletin said on Friday.
“With the diagnosis of Covid-19, severe pneumonia with Type II diabetes, hypertension and hypothyroidism, the patient is being treated with standard Covid-19 protocol at the Trauma Care Centre of Victoria Hospital,” the hospital’s third bulletin said.
“She is maintaining oxygen saturation of 97 per cent with five litres of oxygen through a Non-rebreather mask (NRBM),” it said.
The bulletin added that her condition was stable and comfortable, and she was conscious and well oriented.
The 63-year-old Sasikala was first admitted to Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital by the doctors at the prison, where she is serving a term for corruption, with a diagnosis of type II diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypothyroidism, urinary tract infection (UTI) and suspected Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI).
Sasikala, lodged at the Parappana Agrahara Prison, was sentenced to four years imprisonment in February 2017 in a disproportionate assets case.