Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email TAIPING: P. Uthayakumar, one of the five Hindraf leaders being detained under the ISA, may be suffering from a heart ailment and should be referred to the National Heart Institute (IJN) immediately, his lawyer N. Surendran said.
He said an echocardiogram carried out on Uthayakumar by a specialist at the Taiping Hospital on Sunday found that his client’s heart muscle had been damaged, a condition referred to as “hypokinetic”.
“The specialist said this condition merits referral to IJN,” he told reporters outside the Kamunting detention centre on Tuesday.
Surendran claimed that despite Uthayakumar’s worsening, the authorities have failed to give him the proper attention and that he was contemplating filing legal proceedings.
