Anwar needs back surgery

Anwar needs back surgery

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters): Jailed former Malaysian finance
minister Anwar Ibrahim has agreed to spinal surgery after weeks
in hospital but the treatment he wants may not happen unless he
goes overseas, his lawyer said.

"Our request is very plain. It doesn't say we want overseas
treatment. If it's available here we can consider but it's not,
to the best of our knowledge," Anwar's counsel Sankara Nair told
said on Thursday.

Nair said he had written last week to the government-run Kuala
Lumpur Hospital, where Anwar has been since Nov. 25, to propose
the sophisticated surgery recommended by both local and foreign
surgeons.

The doctors, including specialists from Beaumont Hospital in
Dublin, Ireland, St May's Hospital in Texas, United States and
Alpha-Klinik in Munich, Germany, have recommended "endoscopic
micro spinal" surgery, the lawyer said in his letter.