There is no objective reason to transfer Mikheil Saakashvili to the intensive care unit. Such a statement made today the Minister of Justice.

“According to the yesterday’s statement of the director of the Vivamed clinic, the patient does not have a swallowing disorder or any other interfering mechanism that may exist for the intake of food.

The convict was offered parenteral nutrition, which he categorically refuses and states that he will accept such nutrition only if he is transferred to the intensive care unit.

Physiological parameters of the patient remain within the norm. Even the mass index does not correspond to the treatment parameters in the intensive care unit, which ultimately means that there is no objective reason for transferring Mikheil Saakashvili to the intensive care unit.

Therefore, the public must know that the measures necessary for health, in particular parenteral nutrition, which can be carried out easily in the ward where Saakashvili is, cannot be carried out due to the refusal of the prisoner himself, and the doctor is not given the proper opportunity to take care of the prisoner’s health. The ultimatum and threat of self-harm is categorically unacceptable for the whole society and us”, - said Rati Bregadze.