AAPP calls President Thein Sein to allow external hospitalization for inmate Nay Myo Zin, due to his illness. He is being held in Insein prison, which is notorious for inadequate health care and provides only three doctors for 10,000 inmates. The denial of proper healthcare to Nay Myo Zin comes at a time when Thein Sein purportedly granted amnesty to those prisoners in poor health. There are still at least 122 political prisoners locked up and suffering from poor health, according to the AAPP.
In physically good health upon arrest, he is now unable to walk and faces potential paralysis of his lower body due to appallingly inadequate medical care in Burma’s prisons, compounded by repeated denials of requests for external hospitalization. The severe pain he is being forced to endure has also prevented him from receiving family visits. The case of Nay Myo Zin amounts to a wholesale violation of his most basic prisoner rights, including the right to basic medical care and family visits. AAPP demands the relevant prison authorities to provide Nay Myo Zin with the urgent medical care he is rightfully entitled to under domestic law.
Nay Myo Zin, who was both physically and mentally tortured during his interrogation, is currently suffering from a broken hip and rib leaving him unable to walk or stand. Although he received an x-ray from the prison hospital confirming his grave injuries, repeated appeals to the prison doctor requesting a transfer to an appropriate medical facility have all gone denied. U Hla Myo Myint, Nay Myo Zin’s legal representative, decried the situation as unjust, stating he witnessed criminal offenders receive approval for their external hospitalization requests without delay. Nay Myo Zin has so far received nothing other than pills.
2011.10 Irrawaddy - AAPP Calls for External Hospitalization for Political Prisoner