Slight infection but Sanjeevan on the mend, says father

MyWatch chairperson R Sri Sanjeevan, who is in hospital after surviving a gun attack last Saturday, has acquired an infection but his overall condition is still improving, his father said.

P Ramakrishnan told Malaysiakini after meeting with Sanjeevan's doctors today that his son has already been prescribed antibiotics for the new infection.

"The doctors said he is improving. There is nothing to worry, it’s just that the infection is there. Everything is good," he said.

He added that Sanjeevan (left) is still unconscious due to the drugs he was given, however, he is expected to recover "very soon".

"(The drugs are) to make him sleep and rest. He has lost a lot of blood; his lungs and liver were affected by the gunshot," he said.

In the incident which took place in Jempol, Negri Sembilan, the anti-crime NGO chief was shot in the chest by two men on a motorcycle while in his car, in what is believed to be an assassination attempt to silence him.

According to PKR director of strategy Rafizi Ramli (right), Sanjeevan was on the verge of exposing leaked internal police memos linking its personnel to drug syndicates.

Sanjeevan is currently warded at Serdang Hospital after being transferred from other hospitals in Negeri Sembilan and is scheduled to undergo a critical surgery to remove a bullet lodged in his ribcage.

However, he has been unable to undergo the operation as his medical condition is not yet right for surgery, with Health Minister S Subramaniam denying that there were other reasons for the delay.

Meanwhile, MyWatch advisor S Gobi Krishnan told Malaysiakini that a friend accompanying Sanjeevan during the shooting, Ramesh Balakrishnan, is still in police custody.

He said he last heard of him a few days ago, and there has been no news from the police about Ramesh since then.

Ramesh, who was arrested shortly after the shooting, had supposedly been wanted for drug-related offences since early this year.