{"id":1834,"date":"2008-04-28T15:21:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T07:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/04\/28\/uthaya-falls-ill-again\/"},"modified":"2008-04-28T15:21:35","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T07:21:35","slug":"uthaya-falls-ill-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2008\/04\/28\/uthaya-falls-ill-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Uthaya falls ill again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, looks clear now that SUHAKAM did an incompetent job. Better close shop and save the taxpayers&#8217; money.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, Ms Indra was always stated as fiancee before this. Are they legally married now? <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wife: Uthayakumar very ill<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/malaysiakini.com\/news\/82024<\/p>\n<p>Athi Veerangan | Apr 28, 08 1:46pm<\/p>\n<p>Detained Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leader P Uthayakumar has taken ill again and would undergo medical tests at the hospital today.<\/p>\n<p>His wife S Indra Devi, 36, who visited him at the Kamunting Detention Centre in Taiping yesterday, said her husband <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">s<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">uffered heart problems<\/span><\/strong> and s<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">evere skin allergy<\/span><\/strong> for the past few days. &#8220;His <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">diabetic level is also high<\/span><\/strong>,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Uthayakumar&#8217;s condition is reportedly stable after being treated by doctors at the centre.<\/p>\n<p>She said Kamunting authorities had assured her that her husband would be taken to the hospital for further medical tests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We demand the authorities to provide the best medical care to protect his health,&#8221; she told Malaysiakini when met outside the detention camp, where about 2,000-odd Hindraf supporters from all over the country gathered to call on the government to release all five Hindraf leaders held under the Internal Security Act (ISA).<\/p>\n<p>Uthayakumar&#8217;s failing health has become a contentious subject for several human rights groups and social activists in recent days.Various NGOs and politicians have condemned the camp authorities for allegedly failing to attend to Uthayakumar&#8217;s deteriorating health condition over the past month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Callous treatment&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Social reform group Aliran described it as &#8220;callous treatment of a human being.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Its president P Ramakrishnan said it was hard to believe and unacceptable that in a country that had<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"> exalted the virtues of Islam Hadhari could be so callous in the treatment of a human being<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a result of this gross negligence and wanton cruelty, Uthayakumar had fallen ill and had to be hospitalized,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Kamunting authorities, he said, had shirked their responsibility for the welfare of a detainee under their care. &#8220;As a human, he is entitled to receive medical attention like any other Malaysian,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Indra Devi&#8217;s statement refuted claims by the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) commissioner N Siva Subramaniam that Uthayakumar was being put under good medicare at the camp. &#8220;It was not true that he had been denied medicine for diabetes over the past month despite repeated requests to the director of the Kamunting camp,&#8221; said Siva Subramaniam.<\/p>\n<p>However, in an open statement sent to Hindraf or now popularly known as Makkal Sakti, the movement&#8217;s self-exiled chairperson P Waythamoorthy accused Siva Subramaniam and his team of lying. &#8220;How could Sivasubramaniam be satisfied with the medication given to Uthayakumar when he had never interviewed my brother?&#8221; said Waythamoorthy in an online posting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, looks clear now that SUHAKAM did an incompetent job. Better close shop and save the taxpayers&#8217; money. Curiously, Ms Indra was always stated as fiancee before this. Are they legally married now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[21,133],"class_list":["post-1834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-hindraf","tag-isa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}