Deputy Mayor dies after cardiac arrest, but many questions arise

BENGALURU: Janata Dal (Secular) councillor in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike council, Ramila Umashankar (44), who was elected the 53rd deputy mayor of Bengaluru just about a week ago, died on Friday.

But surprisingly, the hospital where she was taken to after she complained of breathlessness, claimed that she was ‘brought dead’ and said they were unable to establish the cause of death though she was there for a few hours.

Later, another doctor who is not associated with that hospital certified it as natural death due to cardiac arrest.

The New Indian Express has learnt that Ramila, a first-time councillor from Kaveripura ward in Govindarajanagar assembly constituency, was taken to Chord Road Hospital around 12.50 am where the hospital authorities said she was ‘brought dead’.

The hospital, while following protocol by informing the jurisdictional Basaveshwara Nagar police about the deputy mayor’s death, was unable to certify the death as being caused due to cardiac arrest. It als said no post-mortem was conducted to establish the cause of death. The certification of the cause of death was, instead, issued by a different doctor known to the family.