Italy: Urgent update on the health conditions of Alfredo Cospito at over 150 days of hunger strike to the end (21-22 March 2023) [under update]

Urgent updates on the health condition of Alfredo Cospito at over 150 days’ hunger strike to the end (21-22 March 2023) [under update]

Update on the medical situationdi Alfredo Cospito, ion hunger strike since October 20th against 41 bis and life sentence without appeal.

We learn from the press of the regime that today (21st March 2023) that the anarchist prisoner Alfredo Cospito on hunger strike for five months had a heart attack, the comrade – they write – “was dying”. The incident allegedly began when the comrade felt a tremor in his hand and alerted a guard. “After ten minutes the nurse and the doctor arrived, shouting and saying that they had seen a heart problem from the monitoring. They were very concerned, he was dying.” […]. The crisis reportedly subsided after an injection of a large dose of potassium.

The results of tests carried out yesterday were also released today. According to the doctors, the values indicate that Alfredo may now have suffered permanent neurological damage and could be paralysed.

[Taken from a number of telegram channels and republished in https://lanemesi.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/22/aggiornamenti-urgenti-sulle-condizioni-di-salute-di-alfredo-cospito-a-oltre-150-giorni-di-sciopero-della-fame-ad-oltranza-21-22-marzo-2023-in-aggiornamento/]

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