Public Defender and Consilium visit Mikheil Saakashvili in clinic
By Liza Mchedlidze
Monday, December 5, 2022
The Council of Doctors of the Public Defender along with Ombudsman Nino Lomjaria visited Mikheil Saakashvili in the Viva Med Clinic.
After the meeting, the doctors talked about the deteriorating health of the third president:
"He came in weighing 116 kilograms, he weighs 73.6 at the moment. The decline is very serious. His condition can be assessed as unequivocally severe. Of course, Cachexia and significant weight loss are very dangerous for life.
It is one of the good clinics and the colleagues do their best. The facts show that, despite this, the patient's condition is deteriorating dynamically," Tengiz Tsuladze, a member of the Consilium, told journalists.
Nino Lomjaria after the meeting was finished told reporters that the Public Defender's office is considering taking part in the process of petitioning for the postponement or release of Mikheil Saakashvili's sentence.
"A petition has been submitted to the court for release or postponement of his sentence, and the public defender is considering an intervention in this process and in order for us to be able to present our position or have a position on this issue, I considered it necessary to [visit].
If I'm not mistaken, the procedure was scheduled for next week, so probably we will have to prepare before that, so it was necessary for the doctors themselves to come to see and evaluate the situation with their own eyes.
If we can do something to protect his rights and save his life, which my doctors are still talking about today, that the situation is really difficult, difficult and will be critical in a few months with this dynamic, of course, the Office of the Public Defender will do its best in this direction," said Lomjaria.
