Lawyer Says Saakashvili Became Briefly Unconscious on May 23.
By The Messenger Staff
Thursday, May 26, 2022
According to lawyer Dimitri Sadzaglishvili, Mikheil Saakashvili became briefly unconscious on May 23.
According to him, doctors were able to help former President Saakashvili.
“I spoke to him and found out that he lost consciousness late last night, but the immediate intervention of doctors had eliminated the problem.
“We do not want to imagine the outcome if this happened in the 12th penitentiary,” the lawyer said after Saakashvili's visit.
According to him, the condition of the third president is dire.
On May 24, the third president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, issued an appeal regarding his health condition, noting that he has been diagnosed with a spinal cord injury and feels severe pain in his back.
As Saakashvili points out, he needs a treatment completely free of politics, which is impossible to get in Georgia at this stage.
"Since there is a lot of speculation about my health, I decided to talk openly about how I feel. MRT confirmed a spinal injury, which I most likely received in Gldani, using force. This trauma, as I realized, requires surgical intervention today. Severe pain and sometimes several times a day I am given a painkiller. I have strong tremors and dizziness in both hands and it is becoming increasingly difficult to bend the limbs, especially the left hand, I have constant strong pain in the lower extremities.
The neurosurgeon who examined me suggested that the muscles might close soon and then it would be impossible to recover, I do not know what that means exactly, but what I do know is really that I find it increasingly difficult to move and I’m mostly in bed.
MRT also revealed some changes in the brain, about which I have no exact information. Added to all this is the complete intolerance of food for several days.
The thing is, just calling me not to smoke and eat is not right, otherwise, everyone who knows me knows that lying down is not my character, nor have I ever had a lack of no appetite.
In the face of so many political statements about my health, unfortunately, my real cure here becomes impossible.
“We need a treatment completely free of politics, which is impossible to get in Georgia at this stage,” Saakashvili said in a statement.
Clinic Vivamed published a statement, according to which, the president’s health has not deteriorated during his stay in the clinic.