MOSCOW. Sept 27 (Interfax-AVN) - Condition of Colonel General Anatoly Romanov, heavily wounded in Chechnya in 1995, may change for the better due to a cutting-edge medical device, Colonel Vasily Panchenkov, head of the Russian Interior Ministry Forces press-service, told Interfax-Military News Agency on Monday, quoting Colonel Yegeny Krivozubov, Deputy Chief of Cardiology of the Burdenko Central Military Hospital.
"We hope that we will reach a turning point next year," Krivozubov told Romanov's relatives and colleagues, who visited the general in hospital on his 56th birthday.
The doctor's confidence is based on the cutting-edge medical device. "This device can both diagnose abnormal changes in the cerebral cortex, and treat its damaged parts," Krivozubov said.
According to him, Romanov's condition is stable, and is unlikely to deteriorate.
Panchekov also said that Romanov had been visited by Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliev, as well as has former colleagues, including Colonel General Nikolai Rogozhkin, the Interior Ministry Forces Commander-in-Chief, Army General Vyacheslav Tikhomirov, former Interior Ministry Forces Commander-in-Chief, and members of the Interior Ministry Forces Council.
Romanov was heavily wounded in Grozny on October 6, 1995, and has been treated at the Burdenko Central Military Hospital ever since.