Amid a week-long hospitalization for COVID-19 viral infection and breathing difficulty, VK Sasikala, the close confidante of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, is nearing to get discharged from Victoria Hospital, Bengaluru as the hospital will be deciding on her discharge on Sunday, days after getting released from the Parappana Agrahara Prison in the city. 

According to reports, the hospital will be deciding on her discharge on Sunday and she would be undergoing the test for the COVID-19 viral infection prior to discharge and she will be staying in Bengaluru for a week after which she will be arriving in Chennai. The hospital has said that she is doing stable and conscious. She is doing comfortable and her vital parameters are stable.

The hospital further stated that the COVID-19 viral infection has got reduced and blood sugar level under control. By citing that Sasikala is getting monitored continuously, the hospital has asserted that she is maintaining saturation without oxygen and is walking with support. The development that Sasikala is nearing her discharge had brought a huge relief to her supporters and family members. 

On Wednesday, VK Sasikala was released from the Parappana Agrahara after completing her four-year prison sentence. She was serving the prison sentence in Bangalore after she was convicted in the Disproportionate Assets case in which Jayalalithaa was the first accused. While she was nearing her release on January 27, she had developed breathing difficulties and discomforts in the prison on January 20 following which she was brought to Bowring Hospital in Bangalore at a state of low oxygen saturation level. 

The sudden setback on her health had shocked her family members and supporters and she was immediately given oxygen support and placed under the intensive care unit. She was also diagnosed with Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) and developed positive symptoms of COVID-19 following which two COVID-19 tests were taken in Bowring and those two results were returned negative. 

However, her health condition warranted a CT scan and due to the non-functioning of scanning equipment, Sasikala was discharged from Bowring and shifted to Victoria Hospital in Bangalore on January 21. Sasikala has been nearing her discharge from the hospital nearly ten days of hospitalization and she would be arriving in Chennai during the first week of February.