Medics tried to resuscitate Navalny for more than half an hour - hospital

SALEKHARD. Feb 16 (Interfax) - An ambulance team reached the penitentiary where Alexei Navalny was serving his prison sentence in less than seven minutes, and it took them two more minutes to cover the way inside the penitentiary territory to reach the patient, the Labytnangi Town Hospital told Interfax.

"It took the ambulance team less than seven minutes to arrive at the penal colony, and the way to the patient on the colony's territory took another two minutes. The medics who arrived at the scene continued the resuscitation measures that colony medics had been previously applying. And they performed them for more than half an hour. However, the patient died," the hospital said.