Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa is being "constantly monitored" at the Apollo Hospital in Chennai.
However, one of the AIIMS doctors, who had examined her last week, visited her again on Sunday and Monday.
"Prof Dr G Khilnani, Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), visited Apollo Hospital again on October 9 and 10 and examined Honourable Chief Minister," the hospital's Chief Operating Officer, Subbiah Viswanathan, said in a release.
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Khilnani, part of a three-member AIIMS panel which examined Jayalalithaa last week, had discussions with the expert panel of the hospital and "concurred with the present line of treatment" being given to the chief minister, the release said.
Jayalalithaa continues to be under treatment and is being "constantly monitored" by the intensivists and the other consultants in the expert panel," the release said, adding that necessary respiratory support, antibiotics, nutrition, supportive therapy and passive physiotherapy were being given to her.
Jayalalithaa (68) was admitted to the hospital on September 22 after she complained of fever and dehydration.
