The three Ukrainian navy sailors who were injured during their apprehension for crossing into Russia in the Kerch Strait, underwent a thorough medical examination at the First City Hospital, the Public Monitoring Commission’s secretary Ivan Melnikov told Interfax on Monday.
“Commission members visited Andriy Eider, Vasyl Soroka and Andriy Artemenko in jail to check on their health after their discharge from the medical unit. The sailors said they had undergone a comprehensive medical examination and were satisfied,” Melnikov said.
They were examined by a general practitioner, a surgeon, a neuropathologist, a neurosurgeon, an ear, nose and throat specialist, and an eye doctor. They also had a computer tomography scan, he said.
“Artemenko said that the eye doctor had prescribed him eye drops and ointment. He said that after using them, his eyesight stopped deteriorating. He has requested another consultation with the eye doctor and we have passed his request to the jail administration. Eider, in turn, said that a doctor said that he still had post-traumatic syndrome but promised it would go away after a while. As regards Soroka, the Commission members did not get a chance to speak to him because he was having a test carried out.”
In addition to the public monitoring commission, the sailors also get regular visits from the Russian human rights commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova, her Moscow counterpart Tatyana Potyayeva, and Ukrainian consular officials, Melnikov said.
