Gehana Vasisth’s Health Very Fragile, Sources Say Actor on Death-bed At Mumbai’s J J Hospital

MUMBAI: Model and Tv actor Gehana Vasisth who was arrested in February this year, for allegedly shooting and uploading obscene and pornographic content on her website is currently in the cardiac specialty section of the Sir J J hospital in Mumbai, her publicist Flynn Remedios informed.

A hospital source said her condition was very serious and she is nearly on her death-bed. She had suffered a serious bout of Covid in April this year and her immunity is at an all time low. To add to her woes, she is highly diabetic and her sugar level is over 500 said a source familiar with the situation.

Remedios has launched a #Justice4Gehana campaign on social media as she has been denied bail for the last four months, on flimsy reasons and for technical reasons like the court being adjourned due to Covid restrictions, or some other mechanical reason, without heed to her genuine human right to be eligible for bail on merits.

After she had tested positive for Covid in April she was shifted to the BMC’s Prisoner Covid Care Centre at a specially constructed facility for under trials at a Municipal school at Byculla.

This was initiated by the Bombay High Court which took suo moto cognizance of several prisoners testing positive for Covid in April both at the Byculla and Arthur Road jails and across other jails in Maharashtra. Gehana Vasisth was lodged in the same section as former INX founder Indrani Mukherjea at the prisoner Covid care centre.

Gehana recovered from Covid but she suffered a major stroke and was shifted to the cardiac specialty section of Sir J J hospital, Remedios told this reporter.

Immediately upon her arrest, four months ago, the actor’s publicist and legal affairs head Flynn Remedios had issued a statement.

He had said that his client shouldn’t be kept in custody owing to her “fragile health”. According to him, Vasisth “suffered four cardiac arrests in the last one year” and is also asthmatic. Remedios had further urged the authorities to allow her to get hospitalized at the earliest or permit her to be treated in a private hospital of her choice at her own cost.

Her bail application is pending in the Bombay High court for nearly 6 weeks.

According to Remedios, Gehana’s sugar level was 503 when recently tested by the Byculla Women’s Jail authorities. She had suffered from diabetes ketoacidosis – a fatal form of diabetes, last year. Her blood pressure is low and she needs insulin twice a day, which was being administered to her in the jail. She suffered a stroke and was rushed by jail authorities in an ambulance a few days ago. She miraculously recovered from Covid after a long battle, in spite of being a diabetic and cardiac patient, but is now once again fighting for her life, he said.