V.K. Sasikala, former All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) leader and a close aide of former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa, was on Sunday discharged from Bengaluru’s Victoria hospital where she was undergoing Covid-19 treatment.
A large number of supporters gathered outside the hospital with flower bouquets to welcome her at around 12.30 pm. The crowd burst into slogans and cheers on seeing her. Sasikala acknowledged them with folded hands before getting into a car that drove her away.
Prior to her discharge, Dr Ramesh Krishna, Medical Superintendent of Victoria Hospital, told reporters, “Vital parameters of former AIADMK leader V.K. Sasikala are stable.”
Over 300 police personnel were deployed in the hospital area to ensure law and order, police said according to a PTI report.
The health bulletin issued by the Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI) on Saturday had stated that Sasikala is asymptomatic of Covid-19.
“The team of doctors attending Sasikala has taken a decision that she is fit for discharge and she will be discharged tomorrow with the advice of home quarantine,” the BMCRI had informed on Saturday.
Sasikala was admitted to Lady Curzon Hospital following complaints of fever and later she was admitted to the BMCRI and tested positive for Covid-19 in an RT-PCR test on 21 January.
She was officially released from judicial custody on 27 January after completing her four-year prison sentence in the disproportionate assets case.