Berlin hospital publishes details of Novitchok poisoning
Berlin hospital publishes details of Novitchok poisoning
"Severe poisoning with a cholineserase inhibitor has been diagnosed at Charity," the scientists explain in this four-page article in The Lancet.
Berlin doctors who treated Alexei Navalny on Wednesday released clinical details of his poisoning at Novitchok, with the Russian opposition welcoming the publication of the medical "evidence" that Moscow had been demanding for months.
"Severe poisoning with a cholineesterase inhibitor has been diagnosed at Charity," the scientists explain in this four-page article in The Lancet, which first traces the symptoms triggered by the Novitchok group's nerve agent developed by the USSR in the 1980s.
Russian doctors' findings contradicted
"The verification of the involvement of an Novitchok agent. was not made until several days after the diagnosis of poisoning ... and did not affect treatment decisions," they continued. According to the article published with the consent of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opponent fell into a coma after the first symptoms appeared, his heart rate slowed sharply and his body temperature dropped to 33.5 degrees Celsius.
"His good health before the poisoning probably helped his recovery," the scientists said, contradicting the findings of Russian doctors who once questioned Navalny's lifestyle and general health.
"Medical data available for the world"
A fierce critic of Vladimir Putin's regime, Alexei Navalny fell seriously ill on 20 August on a plane in Siberia while campaigning for local and regional elections. After being treated in a Siberian hospital, he was transferred to the Berlin Hospital of Charity from where he was discharged a few weeks later.
Since then, he has accused the Russian secret services of having been behind the attempt to assassinate him, allegations deemed "delusional" by Moscow, which had so far denied that he had been poisoned because it had not had access to evidence of intoxication.
Alexei Navalny reacted with irony on his Facebook account on Wednesday: "The most important thing is that Vladimir Putin is relieved. At each press conference, he exclaimed, waving his hands: "When will the Germans provide us with their data?" It doesn't matter anymore, medical data are now published and available to the whole world.
The European Union had demanded an explanation from Moscow and imposed sanctions on which Russia countered on Tuesday with counter-measures.
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