Ex-director of Russian hospital where Navalny was treated goes missing 2 minutes read
Moscow, May 9 (EFE).- Alexander Murakhovsky, the former director of the hospital in the city of Omsk, where Russian dissident leader Alexei Navalny was treated after being poisoned last August, disappeared on Friday, allegedly while on a hunting trip, the regional Interior Ministry announced.
Murakhovsky, who was promoted to head the Omsk regional health ministry last November, was one of the doctors at the Siberian region’s No. 1 Emergency Hospital who said that Navalny had not been poisoned.
Omsk is located in Siberia, about 2,200 km (1,370 miles) east of Moscow.
Dr Alexander Murakhovsky was found wandering out of a Siberian forest Monday
He had vanished on Friday from a hunting base, with some fearing he had been attacked by wild bears
The doctor had overseen Alexei Navalny s treatment after poisoning claims
There was concern over the doctor s disappearance after two medics who had treated Navalny had died in mysterious circumstances
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A doctor who oversaw the treatment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has gone missing.
Dr Alexander Murakhovsky, 49, has not been seen since Friday after vanishing in a Siberian forest amid reports of wild bears in the vicinity.
The doctor, who had been on a hunting trip in the remote Omsk region, had overseen Mr Navalny’s initial treatment after he claimed he had been poisoned with novichok by the Kremlin.
Dr Alexander Murakhovsky, 49, has not been seen since Friday after vanishing in a Siberian forest amid reports of wild bears in the vicinity
In February another doctor who treated the activist died in mysterious circumstances amid claims he had been ‘liquidated’. The following month a further medic died after ‘suffering a stroke’, prompting claims the death was suspicious.