Doctors treating opposition figure Alexei Navalny have backed down and agreed he could be evacuated after his family and aides battled for him to be taken to Germany.
Russian doctors treating opposition figure Alexei Navalny for suspected poisoning have backed down and agreed he could be evacuated after his family and aides battled for him to be taken to Germany.
"We... took the decision that we do not oppose his transfer to another hospital, the one that his relatives indicate to us," the deputy chief doctor of the Omsk hospital, Anatoly Kalinichenko, told journalists. Nr Navalny's aides say they believe he was poisoned and that something was put in his tea at an airport cafe, but doctors on Friday said"no trace" of any poison was found.Russian doctors said their preliminary diagnosis was a"metabolic disorder" caused by a sudden drop in blood sugar levels. Mr Kalinichenko said the Russians had a consultation with the German doctors and they examined Mr Navalny.
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