From Human Rights In Ukraine By Halya Coynash
Iryna Danilovych has, thankfully, ended her life-threatening hunger strike, after she was promised a medical examination and treatment. She is, however, in danger of losing her hearing because of the Russian occupation prison’s failure to provide timely medical treatment for an ear inflammation.
Iryna had seen no other alternative but to declare a dry hunger strike on 21 March after suffering acute earache for four months, with the SIZ0 [remand prison] administration ignoring her plea for a medical examination and proper treatment. In her formal statement announcing the hunger strike, she informed that the hearing problems and constant ringing in her left ear had been causing excruciating pain, with the travelling between the SIZO in Simferopol and the occupation ‘court’ in Feodosia exacerbating her torment. As a nurse, Danilovych was aware and expressly warned that her symptoms could indicate a micro-stroke….
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