The doctor who falsified Navalny's diagnosis has been removed from his post as Minister of Health of the Omsk Region.
The doctor who falsified Navalny's diagnosis has been removed from his post as Minister of Health of the Omsk Region.
Governor of the Omsk Region Vitaly Khotsenko posted The resignation of Alexander Murakhovsky, the regional health minister. It was Murakhovsky who falsified Alexei Navalny's diagnosis while serving as the head physician of the hospital where the poisoned politician was admitted in August 2020.
The meeting where the new regional government was introduced took place on Monday, November 20. Artem Narkevich will now replace Alexander Murakhovsky as Minister of Health.
Local media reports suggest that several incidents that characterize the functioning of the local healthcare system may have led to Murakhovsky's dismissal.
"We're talking about the disruption of plans under the national Healthcare project at regional medical facilities, and the nuances of providing feldsher-midwife stations with the necessary amenities and equipment. A scandal also recently erupted over the discovery of fictitious medical services provided to Omsk patients, allegedly under compulsory medical insurance policies," пишет The portal "City55" reported on the reasons for the dismissal.
Alexander Murakhovsky became the head of the Omsk Region Ministry of Health in November 2020. Prior to this, he headed Emergency Hospital No. 1, where opposition politician Alexei Navalny was taken after he fell into a coma on a plane flying from Tomsk to Moscow. Navalny spent the first two days after his poisoning in the hospital, while his family tried to obtain permission to transport him to Germany's Charité Hospital. Murakhovsky said that guilty Alexei Navalny's condition is not poisoning, but a "metabolic disorder." He also said that no oxybutyrates or barbiturates were found in Navalny's body.
In May 2021, Murakhovsky went missing while hunting, but was found three days later.
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