Former Pakistan cricket captain Wasim Akram`s wife Huma passed away at 9.20am on Sunday following a cardiac arrest at Apollo Hospitals
here.

Huma, a hypnotherapist in Pakistan, was admitted to the hospital last Tuesday after she had a heart attack when the air ambulance on which she was being flown to Singapore landed at Chennai airport for a scheduled refuelling. She was being flown from Lahore to Singapore for treatment at Mount Elizabeth Hospital.

She was treated for `fever of unknown origin`, suspected to be brain fever. She also suffered from multi-system organ failure, hospital sources said. She was under critical care throughout the week as her blood pressure dropped drastically and her vital parameters like heart rate, pulse and urine output did not stabilise.

Huma was put on ventilator and developed sepsis an inflammation of several tissues, including blood that led to kidney failure. She was under dialysis and did not respond to medicines.

Dr Ramesh Venkataraman, consultant at Apollo Hospitals, confirmed the death to the media and said that Huma passed away after `cardiac arrest and severe refractory shock`.