If there were any doubts about the power of social media, they should have been cleared by Sunday night’s events surrounding the cardiac arrest that Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa suffered earlier in the day.
To begin with, it was the buzz on social media about Jayalalithaa’s condition through late afternoon that resulted in streams of AIADMK cadres pouring into Greames Lane, where Apollo Hospitals is located.
This is what probably forced the hospital authorities to issue a statement on the CM’s health condition.
And Apollo Hospitals went one step ahead. For probably the first time, a hospital took to social media to disseminate information about the condition of one of its high profile patients.