Tv actress Gehana Vasisth ailing at Byculla Jail, treated at Jail Hospital

MUMBAI: A source (woman undertrial) who was released on bail last week from the Byculla Women’s jail in Central Mumbai confirmed that Bollywood and Tv actress Gehana Vasisth is seriously ailing and is being treated at the in-house jail Hospital.

We contacted Gehana Vasisth’s publicist and head of Legal Affairs Flynn Remedios, who said he got messages from 2-3 women inmates who were released on Friday and Saturday that his client Gehana Vasisth alias Vandana Tiwari is very ill and is being treated at the jail hospital.

According to a Navbharat Times report, even in police custody of the Mumbai Crime Branch as well as the Malwani police station, Gehana Vasisth was being administered insulin injections everyday as her sugar levels are above 460-500 on average.

Her personal physician and diabetologist Dr Pranav Kabra (MD) of Raksha Hospital, Malad, confirmed that she needs external insulin everyday.

Remedios said he was informed that Gehana Vasisth’s sugar levels in judicial custody are extremely high, and she can suffer a stroke or get into coma, due to a medical condition called diabetic ketoacidosis.

Her spokesperson confirmed that she suffers from chronic diabetes and her sugar is extremely high currently. She was not allowed home food in the jail.

Her condition deteriorated in the barracks and she was shifted to the internal jail hospital it is learnt.

Remedios said Gehana has suffered four minor diabetes-induced cardiac arrests in the last 18-24 months. She is also asthmatic and her health is very fragile, he said.

In November 2019, Gehana was on a ventilator for a week and had closely escaped from the jaws of death.

Her sugar levels are above 500 on most of the days and the day she was arrested by the Mumbai Crime Branch, her sugar was 600. She needs to be hospitalized immediately, said her personal doctor and diabetes and cardiac expert Dr Pranav Kabra who had treated her for diabetic ketoacidosis in November 2019.

Diabetic ketoacidosis is a fatal condition and kills 98 per cent of patients who suffer from it.

With the fear of increasing Covid infections looming large and given the fact that Gehana suffers from multiple comorbidities, she must be vaccinated in the jail by the officials concerned, Remedios added.