(21 Aug 2020) Doctors treating Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who remains in a coma in intensive care, refused Friday to authorise his transfer to a German hospital.
Navalny's wife claimed it was an attempt to cover up his alleged poisoning.
Speaking outside the hospital in Omsk where he was being treated, Yulia Navalnaya said she didn't trust the medical staff.
"We think that it's done (the transfer refusal) to give time to let the chemical substance in Alexei's body disappear," she said.
Navalny ally Ivan Zhdanov said police found traces of a dangerous poisonous substance in the politician’s system, but didn't say which one.
Police officials didn’t confirm that.
Navalny, who's 44, fell ill on a flight back to Moscow from the Siberian city of Tomsk on Thursday and was taken to a hospital after the plane made an emergency landing in Omsk.
His team says a plane with all the necessary equipment is waiting at Omsk airport to take Navalny to a German clinic.
Alexander Murakhovsky, chief doctor of the Omsk ambulance hospital №1, said the transfer refusal was for medical reasons and they were waiting for Navalny's condition to stabilise.
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