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August 21, 2020 "No poison" was detected in the blood of Alexei Navalny, the Russian blogger and opponent hospitalized in a coma in Omsk, who according to his supporters was poisoned. This was stated by Anatoly Kalinichenko, deputy director of the hospital, quoted by the international media.According to the head physician of the hospital where Navalny is hospitalized, the diagnosis is "metabolic disturbances" and "sharp drop in blood sugar levels".
The anger of the staff
Collaborators of the Russian opponent disputed the doctor's words: "Metabolic disorders can occur with a huge number of diseases. This is a condition, not a diagnosis. Well, low sugar is not a diagnosis. By the way. , sugar was normal yesterday. Once again they consider us idiots ", Anastasy Vasilyeva commented on Twitter.
"Due to metabolic disturbances and a low sugar level, Alexei cannot be transferred ?!", Ivan Zhdanov, head of the anti-corruption foundation in Navalny, asked controversially, while the spokesperson of the opponent, Kira Yarmysh, said. reiterated that "doctors are not yet able to establish the cause of Alexei's condition".
"They want to buy time"
According to Navalny's own staff, the Russian authorities want to keep him in the hospital for a few more days to make sure that any traces of poison have disappeared from his system. Another Navalny representative added that the medical staff had previously said that traces of poison had instead been found in the analyzes performed.
No to the transfer to Germany
The head physician of the Omsk hospital, where Navalny is hospitalized, "is not ready to take responsibility" for authorizing his transfer, as requested by his family. This was announced on Twitter by one of Navalny's collaborators, Ivan Zhdanov, while a German NGO has already sent an air ambulance to take the activist to Germany, in a coma since yesterday after suspected poisoning.
"Prohibition threatens his life"
The ban on moving Navalny "from the hospital in Omsk" poses a threat to his life. In his condition, running out of adequate machinery and without a diagnosis is a mortal danger. "The spokeswoman for the Russian opponent, Kira Yarmish, reported on Twitter after the news that doctors refused to authorize the transport of Navalny in a clinic abroad, as requested by the family and his collaborators.
"Yesterday the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, promised help in the treatment and transfer to another clinic and today the doctors refuse to give permission", denounces Yarmish echoes the opponent's right arm, Leonid Volkov: "A political decision has been made and not a clinical one, Aleksei's life is in grave danger. All yesterday we talked to dozens of doctors and they all confirmed the same thing: being on board a modern rescue plane is safer than being in intensive care in Omsk, take it away as soon as possible. "
It was an NGO. German to offer the dispatch of a specialized medical transport plane, with a team of doctors on board, to be able to transfer the Russian opponent and his wife to Berlin. The Kremlin spokesman, Dimitri Peskov, had assured that the Ministry of Health Russian was willing to authorize the transfer if a request was made. But now, Yarmysh complains, it is "the medical staff who refuse to approve it."
Di Maio: "Worried, clarify"
"We are very worried about the conditions of health of Alexei Navalny and we follow developments closely. We expect that what happened will be clarified quickly ", writes Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio on Twitter:
Minister @luigidimaio: "We are very worried about Alexei #Navalny's health conditions and we are following developments closely. We expect that what happened will be clarified quickly."
- Farnesina 🇮🇹 (@ItalyMFA) August 21, 2020