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Jayalalithaa Suffers Cardiac Arrest: Here’s What We Know So Far
Swarajya Staff
Dec 05, 2016, 10:23 AM | Updated 10:23 AM IST
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Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa was in a critical condition after suffering a cardiac arrest last evening (4 December). She is being treated by a team of specialists at Apollo Hospital in Chennai where she has been admitted since late September.
Hospital updates indicate that she has been moved to the intensive care unit. No updates have been issued after last night. She is being treated with extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation in which special equipment are used to draw blood from large blood vessels. The equipment then artificially removes carbon dioxide, oxygenates red blood cells before pumping the blood back into the body.
Maharashtra Governor C Vidyasagar Rao, who has additional charge of Tamil Nadu, visited the hospital to enquire about Jayalalithaa's condition on Sunday night. However, he has not issued any statement after his hospital visit.
With inputs from IANS.
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