Jayalalithaa Died Of Severe Infection That Damaged Organs, Say Doctors | Read

J Jayalalithaa communicated in sign language and was responding and communicating for a week before she collapsed after a cardiac arrest, Chennai's Apollo hospital said today, speaking for the first time on the former Chief Minister's death in December in an attempt to "dispel rumours". "It was severe infection with damage to organs that led to her death," said Richard Beale, the British doctor who treated the 68-year-old in her final weeks.