If things go as per plan, she will be discharged in 3 weeks, say informed sources.

With a marked improvement in her health, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa is likely to be shifted from the critical care unit (CCU) to a room in Apollo Hospitals in about three days, informed sources told The Hindu on Thursday.

If things go as per plan, she will be discharged in three weeks, the sources said.

After a team of about 15 specialists, including cardiologists, a pulmonologist, intensivists, infectious disease specialists and a nephrologist, sat down together to stop a mitral valve leak leading to fluid collection in the lungs by calibrating the drug dosage, the infection was treated successfully. Since then, there has been a steady improvement in her health condition. The Chief Minister has been conscious after she was taken off day-time sedation in October third week.

“Not only is she conscious, but she even wrote down her own menu and is eating her food, and not being fed through a tube,” a source said. Physiotherapy is being continued to help rehabilitation after she spent nearly a month on bed.

Doctors said she will also be able to speak soon.

It is expected that a bulletin explaining her health condition will be issued in three or four days.