Milosevic could be saved if he was treated in Russia--Bokeria

Milosevic could be saved if he was treated in Russia--Bokeria
Itar-Tass - March 15, 2006; 12:03 GMT

THE HAGUE, March 15 (Itar-Tass) - “If Milosevic was taken to any specialised Russian hospital, the more so to such a stationary medical institution as ours, he would have been subjected to coronographic examination, two stents would be made, and he would have lived for many long years to come,” Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Leo Bokeria told Russian journalists here. “A person has died in our contemporary epoch, when all the methods to treat him were available and the proposals of our country and the reputation of our medicine were ignored. As a result, they did what they wanted to do,” the Academician noted.

“We have asked for the materials of the entire patholo-anatomic analysis, including microscopic examinations, to be handed over to us after the end of the overall investigation,” he stated.

Touching on toxicology, Leo Bokeria said: “The ongoing analysis may take up to three months, although I am almost 100 per cent sure this was a sudden death, caused by Milosevic’s cardiopathology”. The Academician said the conspiracy theory was ruled out by what he was able to see. “Unfortunately, it is an absolutely banal fact that he died due to lack of medical treatment. That’s all,” Bokeria stressed.

The Russian ambassador to the Netherlands has asked the court chairman, this time on behalf of our state, to pass over all those materials to us, Bokeria said. “If we get them, we shall definitely analyse these materials and shall share our findings with the public at large, because Russian public opinion should not be ignored”. Being as I am a member of the Russian Public Chamber, I want “this important episode of the latest history to find objective and adequate reflection in the Russian society,” the Academician stressed.