Hospital: Russia's Alexei Navalny out of coma, is responsive
Source: AP
By FRANK JORDANS
BERLIN (AP) Poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalnys condition has improved, allowing doctors to take him out of an induced coma, the German hospital treating him said Monday.
Navalny, a fierce, high-profile critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was flown to Germany last month after falling ill on Aug. 20 on a domestic flight in Russia. German chemical weapons experts say tests show the 44-year-old was poisoned with a Soviet-era nerve agent, prompting the German government last week to demand that Russia investigate the case.
The patient has been removed from his medically induced coma and is being weaned off mechanical ventilation, Berlins Charite hospital said in a statement. He is responding to verbal stimuli. It remains too early to gauge the potential long-term effects of his severe poisoning.
It added that the decision to publicly release details of his condition was made in consultation with Navalnys wife.
FILE - In this July 20, 2019, file photo, Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny gestures while speaking to a crowd during a political protest in Moscow, Russia. The German hospital treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he has been taken out of an induced coma and is responsive. German experts say Navalny, who fell ill Aug. 20 on a domestic flight in Russia, was poisoned with a substance belonging to the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)
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FarPoint
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Alert and oriented...that will be encouraging....Essentially, he is now a broken man by Putin's hands...
ihas2stinkyfeet
(1,400 posts)fingers crossed.
Warpy
(111,352 posts)or it could mean he's able to respond to simple commands. Both are good signs that he's still in there.
An interview with Yulia Skirpal said there were no visible signs of impairment, just a tracheotomy scar on her neck. She described her recovery as slow and painful, but it appears she did recover. I haven't seen anything about her father, although he is out of the hospital.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/world/europe/uk-yulia-skripal-poisoning.html
onecent
(6,096 posts)Bayard
(22,157 posts)You can still do your work from there, and maybe be a tad bit safer. Don't drink any tea.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,773 posts)so desperately to be part of that club, that he will ignore or do ANYTHING. A traitor, a coward and a wanna be dictator bent on destroying it all to get that.
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