Tamil Nadu’s iconic Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa passed away at Apollo Hospital in Chennai at 11:30 pm, unable to recover even after the best possible treatment was given to her.
In a statement released late on Monday night, the hospital said that its doctors, nurses and paramedical staff had made every possible attempt to “sustain her revival” after she suffered a cardiac arrest on Sunday, but other “underlying conditions rendered her unable to recover”.
The statement said that she had suffered a cardiac arrest when the intensivist was in her room. She was immediately administered resuscitation and provided ECMO support within the hour. ECMO is the most advanced treatment currently available anywhere in the world, the release said.
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