Empathy: We appeal to the Ministry of Health and all relevant agencies to give an opportunity to the parity council to visit Mikheil Saakashvili today to assess his health condition
"We appeal to the Ministry of Health and all relevant agencies to give an opportunity to the parity council to visit Mikheil Saakashvili today to assess his health condition and determine the compatibility of the technical infrastructure and human resources of the 18th facility with the management of the patient’s health after hunger strike," reads a statement issued by the group of experts of the Empathy Center.
The statement says that if the relevant agencies do not respond to the statement in the next hour, then the actions of the government will be considered as fake care for Mikheil Saakashvili and an attempt to waste time.
“Yesterday (16/11/2021) evening, under the auspices of the Ministry of Health, a meeting was held to establish a parity medical council to study the health condition of Mikheil Saakashvili. At the meeting, the representatives of the Ministry offered us to participate in the parity council.
With the present statement, we, the group of experts of the Empathy Center, publicly express our readiness to participate in the council created on the principle of parity on the condition that this council will be established immediately and it will have access to Mikheil Saakashvili without any restrictions. In addition, decisions should be made and executed in a short time.
It should be noted that 47 days have passed since the start of the hunger strike by Mikheil Saakashvili and at this stage we have almost no information about the details of his health condition. The council set up by the government on October 13, 2021 last saw Mikheil Saakashvili on November 3, and in the last few days, neither Saakashvili's personal doctor, Nikoloz Kipshidze, has been given the opportunity to visit him. Three days ago, council members were at the Gldani Prison Hospital and wanted to see the patient, but after a long wait, the facility administration refused to allow them to enter the prison on the grounds that working hours had expired. For the same reason, after several hours of waiting, Nikoloz Kipshidze, who had not been allowed to see Mikheil Saakashvili for the last three days, was refused to visit Saakashvili, due to which the latter stopped taking vital medicines. These circumstances clearly indicate that Mikheil Saakashvili should be visited and his health condition should be assessed immediately by the parity medical council. Every lost day or hour can have significant negative consequences’, reads the statement.
