Iryna Danylovych reports heartaches, headaches, receives no treatment

Iryna Danylovych. Photo by krymsos.com

Iryna Danylovych, the Ukrainian citizen journalist unlawfully convicted by Russia, complains of heart pain and headaches and says that the left side of her body is numb after a microstroke. Still, the administration of the Zelenokumsk prison No. 7 (Russia), where Iryna is detained, ignores her complaints, reports the Crimean Tatar Resource Center.

The human rights advocates note that if Iryna had been provided with timely treatment, all these consequences could have been avoided. Her relatives and volunteers are only allowed to send her one pill at a time.

“Getting medical care is increasingly difficult: in order to get all the necessary medicine, Irina needs prescriptions from Russian doctors, which can only be obtained after a cruel transportation for examination. The woman is transported to doctors in Stavropol, which is 300 km away from the prison, in police van isolation units ("glasses"), which leads to even greater exhaustion. After such 'trips', any desire to ask for medical help from the occupiers fades," the Crimean Tatar Resource Center notes.

The human rights advocates remind that on August 1, the journalist's father Bronyslav Danylovych passed away before he could see his daughter walk free. Now Iryna has a wido wed mother who has serious health issues and is barely mobile.

On October 7, the Ukrainian President's Mission in the Republic of Crimea reported that the health of Ukrainian citizen journalist Iryna Danylovych, who had been unlawfully convicted by Russia, had deteriorated. She needed urgent highly qualified treatment and may not survive without it.

The Iryna Danylovych case

Iryna Danylovych was detained on April 29, 2022, in the occupied Crimea. She was detained on her way from work on the road from Koktebel to Feodosia. Her house in Vladislavivka village was searched, her phone and laptop were seized.

Iryna Danylovych worked as a nurse, and was also a citizen journalist, covering the healt care workers' rights and problems of the health care system in Crimea.

On June 29, 2023, it was reported that the Russian-backed Supreme Court of Crimea changed the ruling in the case of Iryna Danylovych, who had been previously sentenced to seven years in prison on charges of storing an explosive device. She was moved to a prison in Russia.

On November 2, 2023, it was reported that Iryna Danylovych had suffered a stroke while still in the Simferopol PTDC.

In August Iryna Danylovych's father, Bronyslav Danylovych, said that she had lost all hearing in her left ear and is receiving no medical assistance.