Jaya vows to propel R K Nagar to top of growth pyramid

Vowing to make her R K Nagar constituency a model one in the whole of Tamil Nadu, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa assured the people that all her electoral promises would soon be implemented in right earnest.
"I give my assurance that I will implement development schemes in R K Nagar making it a model developed constituency in the whole of Tamil Nadu which will wow people," she said.
She assured them that she would take all steps to make R K Nagar a model constituency and put it on the fast growth path.
In her maiden post poll thanks-giving visit to R K Nagar, which returned her to the Assembly for a second consecutive term, she thanked the people for giving her an opportunity to serve them again.

Addressing the people from her campaign van, Jayalalithaa said she had brought in as many good schemes as possible to the constituency in the past one year after she was first elected from RK Nagar.
She said she implemented many development schemes in R K Nagar to the best of her ability and promised to do much more.

"When I came here seeking your votes during the Assembly election, I made several electoral promises. I am fulfilling such promises one by one. I give my assurance that soon I will fulfill all the promises."
Profusely thanking them for making her CM for the sixth time, giving her regime a second consecutive term and for re-electing her from R K Nagar for a second term, she said,"you find a permanent place in my heart forever, it will not be sufficient even if I thank you any number of times.

"I am duty bound to convey my heartfelt thanks to you, the people of Dr R K Nagar constituency," she said.
Stating that she does not have sufficient words to express her sense of gratitude to the people, she said,"I will show in action my sense of gratitude," and vowed to work for the people of R K Nagar to the best of her ability.
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Later, Vijay had handed over 'prasadam' meant for Jayalalithaa with senior AIADMK leader and Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha, M Thambidurai.
He gave a "special Prasadam from Kedarnath and holy water from Lake Manasarovar," a release from his office said.

It said he was told by the doctors attending on the Chief Minister that "she has recovered and in a day or two would be shifted to her private room in hospital."
"Vijay said that Uttarakhand people are specially thankful to her (Jayalalithaa) for her support to Thiruvalluvar Ganga Payanam (journey) and hence the special prayers were conducted for her health in Uttarakhand's various temples," it said.
Earlier, Jayalalithaa had voiced support to Vijay's efforts to install a statue of Tamil saint poet Thiruvalluvar on the banks of Ganga at Haridwar, which was reportedly opposed by some local sadhus.
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Radhakrishnan said in the report that during treatment
Jayalalithaa had responded well to the multi-disciplinary care in the Critical Care Unit of the Apollo Hospitals.
He said "certain insinuations" have been made that the administration had used "wrong drugs" over a period of time prior to Jayalalithaa's hospitalisation that had led to "health complications" for her and denied it.
"The medical reports indicate that except for corticosteroids administered for atopic dermatitis, the late Chief Minister was only taking oral hypoglycemic and anti-hypertensive drugs to control pre-existing diabetes mellitus and hyper tension," he said.
"Jayalalithaa interacted with family and government officials on some important issues, including the Cauvery issue. Her clinical course deteriorated later and subsequently recovered substantially to being able to take food orally," Radhakrishnan said.

She was then shifted from the advanced Critical Care Unit to the High Dependency Unit of the Apollo Hospitals where her health and vitals "continued to improve under the close monitoring by the panel of experts," he said.
"This improvement in the late Chief Minister's health condition was brought out in the reports of the AIIMS teams which visited between October 13, 2016 and October 15, 2016 and again on December 3, 2016."
On doubts by "some quarters" on the quality of treatment, he said the AIIMS reports have "consistently concurred" with the line of treatment of Apollo and had commended the "meticulous medical management imparted by the treating team," in their visit reports for October 5 to 7 last year.

"Thereafter on December 3, 2016, the AIIMS team had appreciated the high quality care imparted by the treating doctors. Hence, it is clear that the best possible medical care was afforded to the late Chief Minister," he said.
On the initial treatment, he said after she was evaluated following her admission and was continuously under the care and treatment of a team of experts from Apollo Hospitals.
"The nutrition and the essential nutrient intake was attended to by senior consultants from the dietary team. Physiotherapy was provided by the physiotherapists from the Apollo and a special team of physiotherapists from Mount Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore."

Apollo Hospitals also obtained an expert opinion from Dr Richard Beale, an international specialist and consultant from the Guy's and St Thomas Hospital London.
The Government of Tamil Nadu also had constituted (on September 30, 2016) a five-member team of Government specialist doctors to be stationed at Apollo Hospitals to provide required assistance and co-ordinate with the hospital for Jayalalithaa's treatment.
At the government's request, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, had deputed a team of specialists headed by Dr G C Khilnani, Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Radhakrishnan said in the report.