Madras HC orders Apollo Hospital to file report on Jaya blood sample
Chennai, April 25: The Madras High Court on Wednesday ordered Apollo Hospital to submit a report on the blood samples of late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa by Thursday.
The court's order came as it heard a petition filed by S. Amrutha, who claims to be Jayalalithaa's daughter.
It fixed the next hearing for June 4.
Jayalalithaa was admitted to the hospital on September 22, 2016 and died on December 5 that year.
Amrutha had approached the High Court for an order for DNA test to prove that she was Jayalalithaa's daughter.
The court had asked Apollo Hospital to file a report as to whether it has the blood samples of Jayalalithaa.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
