Activist Temur Katamadze has been discharged from the clinic and transferred to the temporary detention center of the Migration Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. As Zurab Chkhaidze, the clinical director of the Vivamedi clinic, told InterPressNews, the patient’s health condition and test results were satisfactory, so it was considered possible to discharge him from the hospital, and accordingly, he was discharged on March 6.
In addition, as he states, the patient did not comply with the doctors’ recommendations, “violating the clinic’s internal regulations and all ethical norms.”
“The patient’s condition was satisfactory. The results of laboratory tests were also satisfactory. As soon as the patient stopped hunger strike, we started nutritional rehabilitation therapy in accordance with the existing international guidelines. However, the patient was less compliant with our recommendations, did not follow the nutritional restoration course we provided, had complaints, demanded different food that he preferred. In addition, he violated the clinic’s internal regulations and all ethical norms. The norms include rules of conduct, communication with the doctor, etc” said Zurab Chkhaidze.
Activist Temur Katamadze was transferred to the Vivamedi clinic on March 5, on the 48th day of his hunger strike, where he ended his hunger strike.
Temur Katamadze was initially detained by police in Batumi under administrative rules, but after his release, he was arrested again. During the second arrest, the police accused Temur Katamadze of not having the right to live in Georgia.