Russian Doctor Who Treated Putin Critic, Navalny ‘Suddenly’ Dies!

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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.

“With regret, we inform you that the deputy chief physician for anesthesiology and resuscitation of the emergency hospital No.1, assistant of the department of Omsk State Medical University, Ph.D. of medical sciences Maksimishin Sergey Valentinovich suddenly passed away,” the hospital said in a statement without explaining the reason of death.

Leonid Volkov, Navalny’s chief of staff, confirmed Maximishin was in charge of treating the opposition leader.

“He knew more than anyone else about Alexey’s condition so I can’t dismiss the possibility of foul play,” he added.

“However Russia’s health care system is poor, and it’s not uncommon for doctors of his age to suddenly die. I doubt there will any investigation into his death,” Volkov continued.

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.

At the time, Murakhovsky had only certified that Navalny was suffering from a metabolic disorder, not the effects of poisoning.

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.

Navalny was unable to comply with the terms of his probation as for large parts of his convalescence in Berlin he was in a coma, but when sentencing him to prison time the Russian judge insisted that the rules apply whatever the circumstances.

(dpa/NAN)

'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide
'Dotun Akintomide's journalism works intersect business, environment, politics and developmental issues. Among a number of local and international publications, his work has appeared in the New York Times. He's a winner of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Award. Currently, the Online Editor at The New Diplomat, Akintomide has produced reports that uniquely spoke to Nigeria's experience on Climate Change issues. When Akintomide is not writing, volunteering or working on a media project, you can find him seeing beautiful sites like the sandy beaches that bedecked the Lagos coastline.

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