“After his blood sugar reached 320, Arvind Kejriwal was finally given insulin in Tihar jail,” according to AAP

“After his blood sugar reached 320, Arvind Kejriwal was finally given insulin in Tihar jail,” according to AAP

Following days of agitation, insulin was given to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday, April 23, inside Tihar jail, according to the Aam Aadmi Party.

“CM Arvind Kejriwal received INSULIN when the BJP and its jail administration finally had a change of heart and placed him in jail. The sugar level of Chief Minister Kejriwal was 320. Only with Lord Hanuman’s blessings and the Delhi people’s perseverance has this been achieved. Our Chief Minister has received insulin, which we were able to supply,” the AAP wrote in a post on X (previously Twitter).

However, Tihar jail officials claimed that once his blood sugar increased, Arvind Kejriwal received a “low dose” of insulin. After discovering that his blood sugar level was 217 at approximately 7:00 p.m., the physicians at Tihar who were attending to him made the decision to administer insulin, an official informed news agency PTI.

The news outlet ANI quoted a Tihar Jail officer as saying, “AIIMS team had said he can be administered low-dose insulin when the level crosses 200.”

In a video conference with the chief minister on April 20, AIIMS specialists had informed Tihar’s doctors that if his blood sugar level goes above a particular threshold, he would receive insulin, he continued.

The development occurred one day after a Delhi court ordered the AIIMS to set up a medical board to assess Arvind Kejriwal and determine whether or not he requires insulin to control his blood sugar levels. The court also stated that the AAP national convenor’s diet is different from the diet plan that his physician has prescribed.

Arvind Kejriwal begged for a video consultation with his doctor in front of his wife Sunita Kejriwal, but Kaveri Baweja, a special judge for CBI and ED matters, denied her request and issued the ruling.

“Arvind Kejriwal is in Tihar jail for about 22 days,” stated Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj on Monday. For some days now, he has been complaining that his blood sugar is rising and that the jail does not have a diabetes specialist on staff. He’s been requesting insulin. The court’s ruling today made it very evident that Tihar jail lacks a diabetic specialist.”

“This is a welcome step and has proved that whatever he was saying was true,” he stated.

According to his Cabinet colleague Atishi, the court decision demonstrates that Kejriwal was not given the proper medical treatment while incarcerated in Tihar.

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Since insulin is the only option available to control his blood sugar levels, Arvind Kejriwal has been requesting it nonstop for the past ten days, according to Atishi.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) kept Arvind Kejriwal on Match 21 in connection with a money-laundering examination, including the Delhi government’s now-cancelled extract arrangement. Since April 1, he has been kept in Tihar prison.

The AAP leader’s request challenging the ED’s summonses to him has been planned for hearing by the Delhi Tall Court on May 15.