HYDERABAD: Dr Meena Kumari, a neurologist from Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, passed away on Friday after suffering a massive heart attack on Tuesday at a conference in London.
According to her colleagues from NIMS, Dr Meena collapsed at the conference and was rushed to a local hospital, where an emergency angioplasty was conducted to implant three stents to unblock her clogged arteries.
She was recovering from the heart attack when she suffered a brain stroke and was put on ventilator support. On January 17, a formal test for brain death was performed. After 24 hours were completed without sedation and the test was positive, she was declared brain dead on Friday afternoon.