Doctors see Savchenko's condition as satisfactory - prison service
MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - A council of Russian doctors has once again examined the arrested Ukrainian military service member, Nadezhda Savchenko, and concluded that her health condition is satisfactory, says Kristina Belousova, a spokeswoman for the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN).
"Today, at FSIN's initiative, Savchenko was examined by the best Russian doctors, and professors (experts in neurology, gastroenterology and cardiology)," she told Interfax on Friday.
After conducting her medical and clinical examination, the doctors concluded that Savchenko's condition is satisfactory, she said.
"Nadezhda Savchenko was given health care recommendations. The council confirmed the patient's treatment tactic pursued by the physicians at the prison hospital," Belousova said.
A day earlier Savchenko's lawyer Nikolai Polozov said that she had asked for a medical examination to be conducted by an international independent council of various health specialists, including a cardiologist.
"Her condition is worsening, there is less and less time," Polozov said.
On Friday, Savchenko's sister Vera told reporters that Nadezhda had rejected life-sustaining procedures
"She has fully rejected glucose cocktails and will only drink water," she said at a briefing in Kyiv.
Nadezhda "is feeling cold all the time, she has a low body temperature" and has lost 26% of her weight during the hunger strike, she said.
Savchenko was fighting in eastern Ukraine as part of the Ukrainian "Aidar" volunteer battalion. On July 8, 2014, it emerged that she was in Russia, at a pre-trial detention facility in Voronezh. On September 24, she was moved to Moscow. She is accused of abetting the killing of Russian journalists Igor Kornelyuk and Anton Voloshin near Luhansk.