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August 21, 2020 The head physician of the Omsk hospital, where Russian opponent Aleksei Navalny is hospitalized in a coma, "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 Omsk hospital" 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 such a request was made, but now, Yarmysh complains, "the medical staff refuses to approve it."