The Russian doctors who first treated Navalny said that they had not found any traces of poison in his system.
that they had “saved his life with great effort and work,” but noted that traces of poison had not been found in his system.
“If we had found some kind of poison…it would have been a lot easier for us. It would have been a clear diagnosis, a clear condition and a well-known course of treatment,” said Anatoly Kalinichenko, a senior doctor at the hospital, denying any pressure from authorities regarding Navalny’s treatment. The Russian doctors, however, did not specify what they had done to save Navalny’s life, nor did they disclose what he was being treated for, but last week they diagnosed him with metabolic disease possibly brought on by low blood sugar.
Navalny, who was initially being treated in the Russian city of Omsk, was airlifted to Berlin on Saturday and isJaka Bizilj, the founder of the German NGO that funded Navalny’s flight to Berlin, German tabloid Bild that “Navalny will survive poison attack, but be incapacitated for months as a politician.”Stating that Germany needs more information about Navalny’s case before it can decide whether he was poisoned or not, the country’s Foreign Minister Heiko Maas added that “Many facts are missing in the case of Navalny: medical and also likely criminological. We must wait for those.”, Reuters reported.after being admitted to a hospital in Siberia on Wednesday.
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