Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed passed away due to multiple organ failure at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) at 9.10 am on Thursday.
Sayeed, 79, had been ill for the past 15 days and was battling for his life at AIIMS. For the past few days, he was on ventilator. The CM was airlifted from Srinagar to New Delhi on December 24 for his treatment at the apex medical institute of the country.
According to AIIMS spokesperson Dr Amit Gupta, Sayeed was admitted with complaints of fever and neck pain on December 24 after which team of doctors diagnosed him to have sepsis, decreased blood count and pneumonia. Sayeed is survived by his wife, three daughters (including PDP President Mehbooba Mufti) and a son.
“He died due to multi-organ failure at 9:10 am despite our best efforts to resuscitate him,” said Dr Gupta. Mufti was in the Intensive Care Unit of AIIMS and during hospitalisation, his platelets had dropped to dangerously low levels.
later in the day, the body of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) leader was flown to Srinagar for the cremation ceremony at his ancestral village in South Kashmir.