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Sergei Makimişin, one of the main doctors who gave him first aid and treated Alexei Navalny last year at the Omsk hospital, immediately after the Russian opponent was poisoned, died suddenly, CNN reports.
Maksimişin, 55, was the deputy chief of the Omsk emergency hospital where Navalny was hospitalized immediately after his poisoning in August 2020.
“With regret we inform you that the deputy chief physician of the anesthesia and intensive care unit of the emergency hospital does not. 1 from Omsk, doctor of medical sciences, Maksimişin Serghei Valentinovici, died suddenly ”, a statement from the hospital shows, without specifying the cause of death.
Maksimin did not make any statements or press conferences during Navalny’s hospitalization in Omsk.
On August 20, 2020, Aleksei Navalny fell ill while traveling on a plane that had left Siberia for Moscow. The pilot decided to make an emergency landing in Omsk.
For two days, the Omsk hospital kept Navalny in the acute poisoning room. Initially, Russian doctors did not agree to take him by medical plane and take him to Germany, claiming that his condition is unstable.
Omsk doctors, including the chief doctor of Emergency Hospital no. 1 and the chief toxicologist insisted that no poisonous substances had been found in Navalny’s body while he was in their care. They indicated “a metabolic disorder” as a possible diagnosis.
Three months ago, the chief physician of the Omsk hospital was promoted to minister.
Editor: Mihnea Lazăr
