20:53, 13 December 2021

Board of doctors recommends Saakashvili's rehabilitation in a foreign clinic

Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili in the courtroom. Screenshot of the video by REN TV https://ren.tv/news/v-mire/909370-saakashvili-iz-zala-suda-prizval-storonnikov-prodolzhat-protesty"

After a long hunger strike, Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili needs rehabilitation at a neurological centre, but there are no hospitals of the required level in Georgia, the doctors have concluded, recommending that the politician be transferred to a foreign clinic. Saakashvili himself refused to leave Georgia.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on December 12, after visiting Saakashvili in the hospital, doctors indicated that he was in a stably poor condition and was not receiving the proper treatment.

Saakashvili returned to Georgia in late September and was arrested on October 1, as he had been sentenced in absentia in Georgia to imprisonment within two criminal cases. After his arrest, he held a 50-day-long hunger strike, which he stopped after achieving a transfer from prison and the prison hospital to a military one.

Saakashvili's neurological condition dictates the need to transfer him to a neuropsychiatric rehabilitation centre abroad, Otar Toidze, a member of the council of doctors, a neurologist at the "Empathy" Torture Victims' Rehabilitation Centre, has stated.

Saakashvili himself would not leave Georgia and is categorically against treatment abroad, his personal doctor Nikoloz Kipshidze has informed.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on December 13, 2021 at 08:09 am MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Source: CK correspondent