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Doctor Who Treated Navalny After Poison Attack In Siberia Dies
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- At the time, Murakhovsky had only certified that Navalny was suffering from a metabolic disorder, not the effects of poisoning.
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A Russian doctor who treated leading opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, after the poison attack last August has died at the age of 56.
The Deputy Chief Physician for Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation, Sergei Maximishin, “suddenly passed away,” his hospital in the Siberian city of Omsk announced.
Maximishin had worked at the hospital for 28 years.
In November, the head doctor at the same hospital, Alexander Murakhovsky, who had come under pressure for his treatment of Navalny, was promoted to the position of health minister for the region.
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Navalny accused him of “falsifying” the diagnosis.
Navalny collapsed during a flight on Aug. 20. After a stopover, the 44-year-old was taken to the Omsk hospital.
On Aug. 22, Navalny was flown out to Berlin and treated for weeks at the German capital’s Charite Hospital.
According to investigations by several laboratories, he was poisoned with the agent Novichok.
Russia, on the other hand, claims that it has not been able to prove that Navalny was poisoned and is therefore not investigating the matter.
Navalny himself was arrested after his return to Moscow and sentenced to several years in prison earlier this week for allegedly violating the terms of his probation in a previous criminal case for fraud and misappropriation of funds while in Germany.
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