Russia’s opposition politician Alexey Navalny who is currently in prison has revealed that he is receiving injections due to back pains, but is not allowed to learn what substances are used in the injections, reads his Twitter.
Navalny says he started suffering back pains after spending the last three months in a punishment cell. “For example, I have a problem with my spine. It is clear what one has to do to make the problem worse: keep me immobile as much as possible. If you lock a person up in a punishment cell, where he can either stand or sit on an iron stool for 16 hours a day, after a month in such conditions even a healthy person will undoubtedly get back pains. I’ve spent the last 3 months like this. Naturally, my back hurts a lot,” he wrote.
Navalny filed a complaint asking to be examined by a doctor, and in a month and a half the doctor, “some woman in a mask” visited him. “She takes five minutes to examine me and writes something in my medical record. When asked obvious questions like what her diagnosis is, what she prescribed for me, and even what her last name is and where she works, the woman says: ‘Take him away’. Taking me away is the only thing that is done here quickly and without any problems. After a while they started giving me some kind of injections. ‘What are you injecting?’ I ask. ‘We inject what the doctor prescribed. B vitamins, for example.’ Vitamins are great, but the injections don’t help,