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The Charité Hospital in Berlin confirmed in a scientific publication in the Lancet magazine that Alexei Navalny, who was treated in August, was poisoned with a war poison from the Novichok group. A statement on the hospital’s website said the magazine’s editors had requested a request to describe the details and that the article was with Navalny’s consent.
The DPA recalls that the Russian authorities rejected such accusations because there was no conclusive evidence of poisoning with a nerve agent toxin developed by the Soviets for mass destruction.
The Lancet article says that traces of “Newbie” were found in the circulatory system of the Russian after its placement in Berlin. The German Army laboratory, authorized by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, identified an organophosphate nerve agent from the Novichok group in blood samples taken immediately after the patient was placed in the Sharite, according to the article.
The medical team believes that Navalny has barely escaped death and that “his good health before the poisoning probably helped him recover.”
But the main factor seems to be the quick reaction of the emergency team at Omsk airport, where on August 20 the plane forcibly landed in Moscow, where the opposition leader fainted. Doctors immediately diagnosed the poisoning, intubated him and took him to the intensive care unit, where he was subjected to artificial respiration for the first 2-3 hours.
The article also discusses the various symptoms as well as the impact of atropine treatment. These are baricardia (slow pulse), sweating, hypersalivation (increased salivation and narrow pupils), which are associated with the effects of a cholinesterase inhibitor.
In Omsk and on the way to Germany, Navalny was given propofol and fentanyl to keep him anesthetized. However, it is unclear how the atropine was administered, when it started, and what happened in the first two days before it left Russia. Its presence was found in urine samples and German doctors linked these traces to intensive care in Omsk.
District chief toxicologist Alexander Sabayev denies that the ambulance team administers atropine and claims that this happened in the intensive care unit, but due to other indicators and that it is not in the necessary doses as an antidote to the chemicals.
Sabayev began to speak with journalists only after the first publications of “Sharite. Before him, the first source of what was happening with Navalny and participated in his transmission to the German team was the deputy chief doctor of ambulances in Omsk Anatoly Kalinicheko He dismissed the suspected poisoning and gave various explanations why Navalny could not be transported to Berlin, but today this is seen as a sign that on August 20 and 21 someone else gave him instructions on what to say.
Just over a month after the opposition moved to Germany, Kalinichenko left his post and worked in a private clinic. He accepted the interviews only on the condition that he was not asked anything about Navalny.
