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YANGON: The party of detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday urged the military government to allow her to receive medical attention, saying it was concerned about her health.
The 63-year-old Nobel Laureate was placed on an intravenous drip by her doctor's assistant on Friday because she cannot eat, has low blood pressure and is dehydrated, said party spokesman Nyan Win.
But Myanmar authorities refused to grant the assistant permission to visit her again at her home on Saturday, while her physician is being detained by police on unspecified charges, he said.
"We are worried for her health situation. There should be no restrictions for medical treatment," Nyan Win, the spokesman for her National League for Democracy (NLD) party, told AFP.
Medical assistant Pyone Moe Ei spent three hours on Friday afternoon at Aung San Suu Kyi's lakeside home in Yangon, where she has spent most of the last 19 years in virtual isolation.
The physician, Tin Myo Win, had been denied permission to enter the house after waiting several hours to carry out a regular check-up, official sources said on Thursday.
A day earlier authorities arrested a US national after he swam across a lake to the off-limits compound.
State media said the 53-year-old man, identified as John William Yeattaw, spent two days at the house before security forces plucked him from the water as he left at dawn.
He had slept for two days on the ground floor of Aung San Suu Kyi's house, where her two maids live, and asked the detained leader not to inform authorities he was there, official sources said.
The man's motive remained unclear but officials said he is a Vietnam war veteran.
Aung San Suu Kyi's latest period of detention expires at the end of May and authorities have not said if they will extend her sentence.
The ruling government is holding elections next year that critics dismiss as a sham to entrench its power.
The NLD won a landslide victory in elections in 1990 but the military refused to let the party assume office. Myanmar has been ruled by the military since 1962.
- AFP/yt
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