Assange - Denied Medical Treatment

ꕤ Article SOURCE 'Navidad con Assange' / 'Assange Christmas' Spanish:  http://www.entornointeligente.com/articulo/7609906/-26122015 English Google trans: https://archive.is/jium4 EXTRACT ONLY GOOGLE TRANSLATION SPANISH / ENGLISH Saturday, December 26, 2015 But the decline is evident. He can barely move his right shoulder because of pain that came and visited the doctors who have been unable to diagnose, partly because the British authorities do not allow him to move to a medical center to get an MRI or CT scan. He has a broken tooth that bit by something hard in [his] food during a brief stay in a British prison. An extraction or at least a root canal is needed, but his request to visit a dental office has also been rejected. To ease your pain take pills every day. For a time his doctors gave him morphine, but months ago they changed the drug, he says, without the change will produce a withdrawal. Has spent two years trying to get a doctor to treat him, beyond the informal visit, because several British and German doctors who had consulted refused because his insurance did not cover the Ecuadorian jurisdiction and because they feared that association with Assange could hurt them professionally. These potentially dangerous physical ailments increasingly noticeable pale from lack of sunlight and an obvious lack of muscle tone due to lack of exercise add up. As the embassy is located on the ground floor, more than three years since climbs a ladder ago. Before hurting his shoulder practiced boxing with a Wikileaks volunteer working life bodyguard wins, but since then the only activity performed is walking and jogging on a treadmill. Which it makes less and less because the tape will reinforce the feeling of confinement because he did not go anywhere and do not enlarge the objects as you go on your walk and approaches them, as would happen if he were released. Near him they say that Assange has lost all notion of time and space, spends hours without realizing that evening turns into night and despite his inactivity slimline because rarely remembers eating until one of his staff tells you. As he has received multiple death threats, even threats of crazy Americans ... English Google trans: https://archive.is/jium4 'Christmas With Assange' Open Democracy - English Translation (Full Article) https://www.opendemocracy.net/democraciaabierta/santiago-odonnell/christmas-with-assange ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- COMMENT Article isn't easy reading because it's only a Google translate from Spanish. I've only plucked out these bits that relate to Assange health concerns. Getting medical treatment, as an assylee in an embassy, isn't straightforward. It doesn't help that the British are denying Assange access to medical treatment. The British are obviously determined not to let up on the political persecution (and the pressure) they are subjecting him to, ahead of intended arrest and extradition. Ireland, surely there's an ex-IRA dentist that's willing to pull out a tooth, and maybe an ex-IRA doctor that's not afraid of attending the Ecuador embassy in London? Otherwise:  doctors campaigning re full inquiry into Dr David Kelly's death, might not be too intimated by the state (and might be worth approaching, by the sound of them):   2004 and 2013. ꕤ