'Neither advised nor required': Tihar officials in report to L-G on 'CM Arvind Kejriwal's request on insulin
According to the medical records from RML Hospital, Kejriwal was "neither advised any insulin nor any requirement of any insulin was indicated", the Tihar report said and added that the chief minister's health was reviewed by a medicine specialist on April 10 and April 15.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had stopped taking insulin months before his arrest and is on a basic anti-diabetes oral medicine, The Tihar Jail Administration said in a report submitted to the Delhi Lt. Governor VK Saxena.
Kejriwal – who is under the care of a Telangana-based private doctor for diabetes – stopped taking insulin a few months ago and, at the time of his arrest, he was on a basic anti-diabetes oral tablet called Metformin, the officials said, citing the Tihar report.
During his medical check-ups in Tihar jail, Kejriwal told doctors that he was taking insulin “since the last few years and stopped taking it a few months back”, the report said.
Kejriwal was arrested on March 21 by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a money-laundering case linked to the Delhi government’s now-scrapped excise policy. He has been lodged in Tihar jail since April 1.
According to the medical records from RML Hospital, Kejriwal was “neither advised any insulin nor any requirement of any insulin was indicated”, the Tihar report said and added that the chief minister’s health was reviewed by a medicine specialist on April 10 and April 15.