YANGON, Myanmar, May 12 (UPI) -- A spokesman for Aung San Suu Kyi said Tuesday the health of the ailing democracy activist in Myanmar has improved now that she's on an intravenous drip.
The 63-year-old Nobel Prize-winning opponent of the ruling military junta has been under house arrest for 13 of the past 19 years, but her detention is set to end later this month. The military has ruled the country, formerly called Burma, since 1962.
Nyan Win, a spokesman for Aung San Suu Kyi's party, said she met with a doctor Monday who put her on a drip and there was no longer cause for concern about her health, CNN reported. The doctor was allowed to see her after being barred earlier from doing so.
The CNN report said while it was not clear why she was put on an IV, the procedure is used to give saline solution to patients facing dehydration.
The doctor attending on her was not her regular physician Tin Myo Win, who was arrested last week on an undisclosed charge, Nyan Win was quoted as saying.
The spokesman said the junta no longer has any legal grounds to extend Aung San Suu Kyi's detention.
The U.S. State Department in a statement said her detention was unjust and called for her immediate release as well as those of more than 2,100 other political prisoners, CNN reported.
