MILOSEVIC DID NOT ALTER MEDICATION-LAWYER: REPORT PUNCH
03/14/06
A
lawyer for Slobodan
MILOSEVIC has denied news report that the former leader of
Yugoslavia altered his
MEDICATION to discredit medical
care at a Dutch
detention center and be allowed to seek
treatment in Russia.
Zdenko Tomanovic said on Monday that the
64-year-old Milosevic, who died on Saturday in his cell, did not medicate
himself with the drug
rifampicin –
used in the treatment of leprosy and
tuberculosis.
“Mr. Milosevic said he had never used
any medicine against leprosy or tuberculosis, and said ‘ how are they finding
in my
blood this drug if I have never used this drug?’”
Earlier, a wire service quoted a Dutch
toxicologist as saying he had found rifampicin in Milosevic’s bloodstream in
test conducted earlier this year.
The
toxicologist, Donald Uges of Groningen University, also said that doctors at
the detention center had obtained the powerful bactericidal antibiotic and had
been administering it by him.
Rifampicin is known to reduce the
effectiveness of blood pressure medication of blood pressure medication, he
stated that milosevic had complained that he as not been receiving proper
medical care at the detention center, and two days before his death had had
asked for a recess in death had for a recess in the trial so that he could be
taken for treatment in Russia. The tribunal refused the request.
Milosevic
contended that he was being poisoned.
One issue is whether Mr. Milosevic’s
claim that he was being poisoned is justified or not,” Tomanovic said. “The
central issue is whether or not Mr. Milosevic had appropriate medical care.”
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