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Tuesday, 25 August 2020_Russian doctors say tests on opposition figure Alexey Navalny’s found no traces of intoxication with substances from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors, dismissing the claim by a German hospital where he has been admitted.
Charite Hospital in Berlin, where Navalny was recently hospitalized, said in a statement on Monday that clinical findings indicated he had been poisoned with a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors. It said the specific substance remained unknown.
The 44-year-old Russian opposition figure was taken to Germany for medical treatment on Saturday. He had been taken to a hospital in Russia’s Siberian city of Omsk after collapsing during a domestic flight from the city to the Russian capital of Moscow on Thursday. His plane had been forced to make an emergency landing due to the sudden deterioration in his health.
Later on Monday, Omsk Chief Toxicologist Alexander Sabayev said tests on Navalny’s blood samples at the Omsk hospital showed no traces of poisoning with cholinesterase inhibitors and that he did not have symptoms typical of such poisoning.
“Upon his admission to the [Omsk] hospital, Alexey Navalny was tested on a wide range of narcotics, synthetic substances, psychodiletics, and medicinal substances, including cholinesterase inhibitors — all tests came back negative,” the Omsk Ministry of Health quoted Sabayev as saying in a press statement.
“As we said earlier, we are ready to share Alexey Navalny’s samples with our German colleagues for examination,” Sabayev said.
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