Bengaluru: Expelled AIADMK leader V K Sasikala could be discharged from the Victoria Hospital, Bengaluru if she tests COVID-19 negative.
Under treatment for the past ten days, Sasikala will be tested for COVID-19 today, failing which her treatment would continue.
Sources are confident that the Jayalalithaa aide would test negative as she was feeling better yesterday.
Sasikala was reportedly unwell at her prison cell for about a week before admitted to Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital by the prison doctors with a diagnosis of type II diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypothyroidism, urinary tract infection (UTI) and suspected Severe Acute Respiratory Illness (SARI).
She was later shifted to the Victoria Hospital.
Also read: Sasikala released from prison after serving 4-year jail-term
Convicted in the disproportionate assets case in 2017, she was formally released from prison on Wednesday after jail officials completed the formalities.
