Nikolai Statkevich Was Not Given Urgently Needed Medicines In The Colony
10- 23.02.2026, 20:45
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Marina Adamovich told about the condition of the Belarusian opposition leader, who had suffered a stroke.
Marina Adamovich, the wife of Belarusian opposition leader Nikolaia Statkevich, who suffered a stroke and was released on February 19, told Lithuanian publication LRT about her husband's condition.
Nikolai Statkevich returned home on February 19, but, according to his wife, he still remains without official papers, which prevents full treatment.
"Nikolai found himself at home in the evening of February 19. Without a passport, without any documents, without an epicrisis or any extract from medical documents, without understanding his status. This creates great problems for prompt medical care. I can only say that today he looks and feels better than when I saw him in the prison hospital for the first time in 3 years and almost 8 months," says Adamovich.
She notes that Nikolai's serious health problems began in January - then he was urgently hospitalized.
Insult, or rather brain infarction, occurred on January 21. According to Nikolai, the same evening he was brought to Minsk, to the hospital. Nikolai is very grateful to the doctors for their professionalism. Today, most of his body functions have been restored," said his wife.
"But he said that since the moment when he was returned to the colony after the attempt to smuggle him out of Belarus, they stopped giving him the medications he urgently needed or replaced them with, to put it mildly, ineffective. For example, instead of "Rivaroxaban" (Xarelto) he was given ordinary aspirin. Draw your own conclusions. All this time I was looking for him, including so that he would not be left without the necessary medicines, which I sent to the colony," she adds.
Home, peace, walks
Adamovich says that now the rehabilitation process is complicated by a number of problems.
"Today we have nothing to rely on: no understanding of the legal status and the possibility to go to rehabilitation, no medical documents, not even a passport. So now it's home, peace, walks, quality food and the most necessary medications on the advice of the doctor who treated him," says the politician's wife.
She admits that because of problems with speech recovery is not easy, and communication is still given with difficulty.
"It is still very difficult, especially considering how much important things we have to say to each other for almost six years, and how important it is for Nikolai to speak out and be heard, and for me to hear him," Marina says.
Talking about the first days after returning home, the politician's wife notes that despite the experience, the main feeling now is joy and a sense of unity.
"It is a very joyful feeling, especially when you are convinced again and again that nothing has changed, that you are still together and looking in the same direction and that these almost six years as if they never happened - it seems that all this time you were together," she emphasizes.
Application to the chief doctor
About the fact that her husband is released, Marina learned suddenly - everything was decided literally in a matter of minutes.
"Exactly five minutes before it happened, when the head of the prison hospital said that if I want, I can take Nikolai home to continue to recover at home. I asked: "What do you need from me to do that?" It turned out that - an application to the head of the hospital with a request to 'release for rehabilitation at home'," - the woman emphasizes.
"That's how simple it is. You can take your husband out of a prison hospital, a regime facility, on the basis of an application to the chief physician, or more precisely, to the head of the hospital. However, I'm already familiar with the official version of his release," she adds.
"Speaking about the events at the border and his refusal to leave Belarus, Marina emphasizes that she understood what his choice would be and accepted it.
"I had no doubt that he would make such a decision when trying to deport him, and I was worried and scared. But I have and will always support him. "Human values are worth what a person is willing to pay for them," was his belief. He was willing to pay any price. Now we are together, and we will cope," summarizes the politician's wife Marina Adamovich.
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