Kejriwal is fine: AIIMS Docs
Doctors at AIIMS Delhi consulted Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, lodged in Tihar jail, for 40 minutes on Saturday via video conferencing, a source told India Today, during which he was assured of no serious health concerns and to take prescribed medicines advised to continue.
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There is an uproar over the diabetes and insulin injections of CM Kejriwal, who is imprisoned in Tihar Jail in the excise policy scam. During an election campaign, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MP Sanjay Singh has raised questions on Tihar Jail and ED for not giving insulin injection to Kejriwal. Singh said, ‘Insulin is not being given to the CM, if insulin is not given to a diabetes patient on time, then it becomes a question of life and death for that person.
#WATCH | Delhi: AAP MP Sanjay Singh says, " CM is not being given insulin, if a patient of diabetes is not given insulin on time, for that person it becomes a question of life or death…a conspiracy is being hatched to kill him (Arvind Kejriwal)…people of Delhi will give reply… pic.twitter.com/8WsBx21E3i
— ANI (@ANI) April 20, 2024
Saturday’s video conference was organized by the Tihar Jail administration on the request of Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita Kejriwal. During the counselling, the complete records of the jailed Chief Minister’s glucose monitoring sensor, as well as details of his diet and medicines, were examined.
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Tihar Jail Administration released report
It is noteworthy that Tihar Jail administration on Saturday sent a report on diabetes and insulin medicine to Delhi LG VK Saxena. The administration said that he had stopped getting insulin injections months before his arrest by ED on March 21. Kejriwal is taking oral medicine for sugar on the advice of a doctor of a private clinic in Telangana.
The jail administration report states that doctors examined Kejriwal. After which it was said, ‘All the health conditions of the undertrial prisoner (Kejriwal) in judicial custody were examined. His blood sugar level is not worrisome, and there is no need to inject insulin at present.
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However, Tihar Jail source said that the issue of insulin was neither raised by Arvind Kejriwal nor suggested by the doctors during the video consultation.
Tihar Jail’s reaction came after Delhi Minister Saurabh Bhardwaj’s press conference earlier in the day, in which he criticized the jail authorities for contradicting their earlier stand of having all facilities to handle a diabetic prisoner.
