Russian President Vladimir Putin only needs to disappear from public view for a few days, or make some unusual physical movements, which will trigger all kinds of unfounded speculation about his health. Previously, Putin was photographed coughing, walking unnaturally, looking tired, and then foreign media reported that the president had cancer or other diseases. Even back in 2020, Russian critic Valery Solovei claimed that Putin had thyroid cancer and Parkinson's disease and had undergone emergency surgery. But so far, these rumors of Putin's ill health have not been supported by solid evidence.
However, on February 14, the British media "Daily Star" exposed a set of information from the Proekt investigation website about Putin's private medical team, and the health of the 70-year-old president once again sparked speculation.
According to Proekt last April, Evgeny Selivanov, a top thyroid cancer specialist at the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital, flew to the Black Sea resort of Sochi to visit Putin no less than 35 times and presented a so-called "evidence" that Putin was being treated for cancer.
Proekt reports that information about Yevgeny's medical treatment was publicly displayed on Russian public procurement websites, but recently it has inexplicably disappeared.
(Information on the treatment of top thyroid cancer expert Yevgeny Selivanov)
As a result, the investigative website questioned the Kremlin's deliberate concealment of Putin's health, saying that the sudden protection of the document, which could prove that Putin was undergoing cancer treatment, showed that the Kremlin had hidden secrets.
In addition to Yevgeny, a top thyroid cancer specialist, Proekt mentioned other specialists who have seen Putin, including Dr. Dmitry Verbovoy, an expert in acute illness, injuries and poisoning, as well as plastic surgery traumatologist Dr. Konstantin Sim, as well as otolaryngologist Alexei Shcheglov and infectious disease specialist Yaroslav S. Dr. Yaroslav Protasenko.
(marked by ENT surgeon Alexei Šcheglov)
In addition, the neurosurgical team of the Central Clinical Hospital includes attending doctors and department heads Oleg Myshkin and Elena Rastrusina, as well as resuscitator Dr. Pavel Sharikov and head nurse Lyudmila Kadenkova, as well as rehabilitation specialist Mikhail Dr. Tsykunov is also on the list.
In July 2020, Putin also met with Ivan Dedov, director of the Center for Research in Endocrine Medicine, and that most of his doctors were specialists in thyroid and ENT, the report said.
It is also reported that Putin will be accompanied by 6 to 13 medical experts on each trip, and even near his favorite official residences, such as Sochi and Valdai, there are medical personnel on standby.
However, it is worth noting that the Western media has always liked to catch the wind, and they have previously claimed that Putin grabbed the corner of the table with his right hand because he had "severe chronic pain."
Last year, there were also US media reports that Putin was undergoing advanced cancer treatment, and even a so-called Kremlin insider revealed that Putin "only has two to three years left."
But in fact, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has responded unequivocally that "Putin is healthy and everything is fine" and that any speculation about Putin's health is "pure nonsense."
Looking at the recent state of Putin's presidency, those rumors about his poor health have been dispelled. On February 14, the iron-fisted president was still domineering as he presided over the judges' meeting, saying: "We are living under constant pressure from abroad - I mean all these endless sanctions", "but as we can see, we are dealing with all these sanctions with a cool head."
Source: Daily Star, Bing