Mufti Mohammad Sayeed: Sepsis led to heart attack

With an aim of boosting tourism in the state, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed asked Bollywood to do ‘ghar vapsi’ (return) to the valley as he talked about various measures, including holding of a corporates’ meet on the lines of Davos.

Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was battling a respiratory infection for two weeks December 24 at AIIMS. He had developed sepsis from the infection, suffered a cardiac arrest around 8 am Thursday, and died of multiple organ failure at 9:10, doctors said.

“There were efforts at resuscitating him for over an hour after the cardiac arrest. But his organs had been failing already,” a senior doctor said. Stable until Wednesday, his condition started deteriorating over the night.

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Mufti had compromised immunity, with a history of diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which made him prone to opportunistic, hospital-based infections, doctors said. He was put on oxygen support and treated with antibiotics and anti-fungals.

The team treating him included Dr Rita Sood (prof of medicines), Prof Mohd Ashraf Ganaie (endocrinologist), Dr Tulika Seth (haematology) and Prof P N Dogra (urology).