By IANS
Kuala Lumpur : A Hindu lawyer-activist jailed in Malaysia is suffering from poor health after being denied medical care and food despite being a patient of diabetes, his fiancee has alleged.
Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) lawyer P. Uthayakumar is one of the five Hindraf leaders jailed for two years under the Internal Security Act (ISA) after staging a rally in November on behalf of Malaysia’s two million Tamil Hindus.
Uthayakumar was rushed to the Taiping district hospital Monday after he fell ill, said his fiancée S. Indradevi. She claimed his diabetes was out of control and his protein and uric acid levels were dangerously high.
“This has made him listless. When I saw him at the hospital on Monday, he looked very weary and ill,” Indradevi was quoted as saying by The Star newspaper Wednesday.
She said she had handed Uthayakumar’s medication to the Kamunting Detention Centre’s administration but it appeared that it had not been given to him.
“He told me that he had not been given any medication for his diabetes and the food served every day was not suitable for diabetics,” Indradevi said.
She added that Uthayakumar had also written to the detention centre six times asking for proper diabetic diet and medication. His lawyers had asked the camp administration to allow them to bring in a medical specialist to examine him.
Indradevi also alleged that the camp authorities did not inform her that Uthayakumar had been hospitalised.