Mikheil Saakashvili may be bedridden. Doctors published another conclusion on the condition of the ex-president of Georgia.
A group of specialists created under the Public Defender of Georgia to monitor the condition of the ex-president has published the next, already the ninth medical report.
Experts who visited the Vivamedi clinic on April 2 (Saakashvili has been there since May 2022) concluded that Saakashvili’s condition had worsened after their previous visit on February 19, BBC reports.
He lost another four kilograms of weight due to muscle atrophy, significantly limited in movement due to weakness, and when he tries to stand, his pressure drops, accompanied by loss of balance and impaired coordination.
According to experts, in Saakashvili – sarcopenia (loss of muscle mass and muscle function), muscle atrophy and cachexia (exhaustion) of the fourth degree. In the event of further weight loss, he may be bedridden and unable to move due to weakness, doctors say.
Saakashvili was detained in Tbilisi in October 2021 shortly after returning to Georgia, where he is charged with several criminal cases. For two of them, he was in absentia, even before returning, sentenced to six years in prison.
He himself calls himself a “prisoner of Putin” and considers all the charges against him to be politically motivated.
During his imprisonment, Saakashvili went on hunger strike twice and changed several medical institutions. In May last year, he was transferred from a prison in Rustava to the Vivamedi multidisciplinary clinic on the outskirts of Tbilisi.
Relatives and admirers of Saakashvili have long sounded the alarm about his condition, believing that the only way to save his life is treatment abroad. Authorities say he deliberately harms his health to secure release from prison, and accuse his supporters of speculating and politicizing the issue.
On December 1, 2022, Saakashvili’s lawyers petitioned the court to dismiss or defer his criminal punishment due to severe diagnoses, but the judge, after two months of court hearings, refused to satisfy the defense’s petition, leaving the ex-president in custody in a Tbilisi clinic.
Source: Racurs
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