From Our Special Correspondent

Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Jan 30: Expelled Tamil Nadu AIADMK leader V K Sasikala, who was released from jail recently but had to undergo treatment at Victoria Hospital for COVID-19, will be discharged on Sunday.

Victoria Hospital medical superintendent, Ramesh Krishna K said the Tamil Nadu leader, who was sentenced to undergo four years imprisonment along with deceased Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, will be discharged on Sunday morning.

After her release on January 27, she continued to get treatment at Victoria Hospital. She was admitted to the hospital on January 21 after she was tested for COVID-19.

“There is no need to test her before discharge. She has been asymptomatic and without oxygen support for the last three days,” hospital superintendent Ramesh Krishna K said.

Hospital authorities had said she will be discharged on the tenth day if she is asymptomatic and free of oxygen support for at least three days.

She was admitted to Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital on January 20 after she complained of fever.

From the Bowring Hospital, she was shifted to Victoria Hospital on January 21 after she was diagnosed with SARI. Subsequently, she was tested for COVID again and she tested positive the same day.