YANGON (AFP) – Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is "not in good health" as she cannot eat, has low blood pressure and is dehydrated, her party spokesman told AFP Saturday.
Nyan Win said the assistant to Aung San Suu Kyi's doctor had been to visit her on Friday and placed the Nobel laureate on an intravenous drip.
"The lady's not in good health. She cannot eat and she has low blood pressure and she (the assistant) found she (Suu Kyi) has dehydration," National League for Democracy (NLD) spokesman Nyan Win said, referring to the party leader.
"We are worried very much for the lady's health situation," he added.
Medical assistant Pyone Moe Ei had spent three hours on Friday afternoon at the house and has requested permission for a return visit on Saturday to renew the intravenous drip, he said.
Nyan Win said Aung San Suu Kyi's doctor had been detained since Thursday after visiting the house to carry out a regular medical check-up on the 63-year-old pro-democracy leader, but he did not know why.
Official sources said Thursday that the doctor, Tin Myo Win, had been denied permission to enter the house after waiting several hours.
On Wednesday Myanmar authorities arrested a US national after he swam across a lake to the off-limits compound where Aung San Suu Kyi is under house arrest, according to officials.
State media said the man spent two days at the house before security forces plucked him from the water as he left at dawn.
Aung San Suu Kyi has spent most of the past 19 years under house arrest in Yangon, where she lives with her two maids. She is allowed only occasional visits from her doctor and lawyer.
The NLD won a landslide victory in elections in 1990 but the military, which has ruled the impoverished country with an iron rod since 1962, has never allowed it to take office.(AFP)
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