The Putin critic, Vladimir Kara-Murza, who has been in a coma for a week after apparently being poisoned, has regained consciousness and is now awake, his wife has told ABC News.
Vladimir Kara-Murza has been in a hospital in critical condition since last Thursday when he abruptly fell ill, poisoned, doctors say, by an unknown substance.
The thirty-five year-old has been on life-support since then and was placed into an artificial coma after his major organs failed within a matter of hours.
Unable to identify what was causing the poisoning, doctors have been racing to clean his system, putting him on hemodialysis.
On Wednesday night though, his wife, Evgenia, told ABC News that he was “doing better” and was now conscious.
“He’s awake but confused. He doesn’t remember everything,” Evgenia Kara-Murza wrote in text messages on Wednesday.
“He’s doing better but there are still risks and complications of course,” she added, saying his heart and kidneys were also doing better. The improvement is good news, though he is not yet out of danger.
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