Chhattisgarh's first Chief Minister Ajit Jogi passes away

Jogi suffered cardiac arrest around 1.30 pm and doctors battled for over two hours to revive him, but were unsuccessful and he breathed his last around 3.30 pm, said a medical bulletin from the Shree Narayana Hospital here.

Jogi, who was admitted to the hospital on May 9 after a heart attack, had slipped into a coma the next day.

Hospital Director, Dr Sunil Khemka, in a medical bulletin on May 10, said that oxygen had not been reaching the brain for some time, causing brain damage. The condition is called hypoxia. (IANS)