WIKILEAKS frontman Julian Assange has played down reports of his ill health but says an Australian offer of medical assistance amounted to providing a list of local doctors.
During an interview with ABC Radio on Wednesday night, Mr Assange responded to reports he had a chronic lung condition.
"I wouldn't necessarily go that far but the circumstances are difficult," he said.
The Australian citizen has been holed up in Ecuador's London embassy since taking refuge there in June in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faces questioning over rape allegations.
He previously lived under house arrest at a supporter's Norfolk mansion.
A husky-voiced Mr Assange on Wednesday said he had "been in worse positions".
"Solitary confinement was worse," he said.
"Two years under house arrest, going to the police station every day at a certain time with a manacle around my leg was worse."
Ecuador's envoy to Britain, Ambassador Ana Alban, reportedly told journalists in Quito last month Mr Assange had "a chronic lung condition that could worsen at any time".
A message was later posted on the South American country's London embassy website clarifying that Mr Assange did "not have an urgent medical condition".
He said the Australian government had offered to assist in case of medical emergency, including monetary assistance, but then scaled down the assistance they were willing to give.
"The Australian government gave a list of numbers for doctors in the London area, that was all that they would do," he told ABC Radio.
Mr Assange is concerned that if he goes to Sweden, authorities will allow him to be extradited to the United States to be questioned over WikiLeaks' release of thousands of US diplomatic cables.
He was granted asylum in Ecuador in August but Britain has refused to grant him safe passage out of the country, leaving Mr Assange stuck in the embassy.
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