The chief physician of the Omsk hospital where Navalny's poisoning was "definitively ruled out" has received a new position

The Omsk Region Health Ministry has appointed Alexander Murakhovsky, the chief physician of Emergency Medical Care Hospital No. 1 (EMC No. 1) in Omsk, where Alexei Navalny was taken after his poisoning, to a new position. Murakhovsky has become acting head of City Clinical Hospital No. 1, writes Tayga.info.

Explaining Murakhovsky's appointment, the head of the regional Ministry of Health, Irina Soldatova, said that City Hospital No. 1 "requires attention and a businesslike approach." "It is necessary to return one of the city's largest medical institutions, which spends most of its time in quarantine and has a large percentage of sick medical workers, to working order," she said.

Murakhovsky headed Emergency Hospital No. 1 in Omsk since March 2018.

• Alexei Navalny spent two days in the Omsk hospital, which was headed by Alexander Murakhovsky. The head doctor of the Emergency Hospital No. 1 claimed that, according to research, no poisons or products of their action were found in Navalny's body, so doctors ruled out the possibility of poisoning.
• Before being hospitalized, Navalny assumed that he could have been poisoned, as did his relatives and associates. Murakhovsky said that, according to Omsk doctors, the oppositionist became ill due to a metabolic disorder. In Germany, where the politician was evacuated from Omsk, they said that he was poisoned with a substance from the Novichok group.
• On August 21, Alexander Murakhovsky spoke out against transporting Navalny to Germany. At a meeting with journalists, he said that the patient remained "stable and severe," and then called him "unstably severe." That same day, doctors allowed Navalny to be evacuated after "poisoning was finally ruled out." The politician himself said in an interview that he was kept in Omsk for a long time so that no traces of poison would be found in his body.