Putin's Health Problems Reported In Kremlin
- 17.10.2024, 8:03
The head of the Russian Federation is a regular client of the Central Clinical Hospital.
Vladimir Putin has ‘no health problems’ and his regular check-ups at the Central Clinical Hospital are just a standard examination. Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the head of state, said this in an interview with TASS. ‘Absolutely. We are talking about regular dispanserisations,’ he said in response to a related question.
On October 16, at a meeting with the government, Putin mentioned that he regularly undergoes medical check-ups at the CCH. He said this in the context of discussing the seasonal flu vaccination being conducted across the country. The head of the Russian Federation noted that doctors at the Central Clinical Hospital recommend using domestic drugs for vaccination.
In the spring of 2023, Captain Gleb Karakulov of the Federal Guard Service, who has left Russia, said in an interview with the Dossier Centre that Putin was treated at the Central Clinical Hospital in April 2022 after Ukraine refused to surrender and the Russian army was forced to retreat from Kyiv. Karakulov also noted that Putin undergoes regular medical check-ups, and once the pandemic begins, everyone working with him must be quarantined and given PCR tests ‘almost several times a day.’
In addition to his health, Putin, according to Karakulov, is worried about his safety. For example, during his trip to the summit in Kazakhstan in 2022, Putin insisted on installing special communications in a bomb shelter, rather than in his office or meeting room, as he had done previously. The FGS officer explains this as a manifestation of ‘paranoia.’ He also noted that Putin always takes with him on foreign trips an intercom cabin, a special 2.5-metre-high cube from which secure telephone conversations can be conducted.
The British tabloid of Daily Mirror, citing a source in the FSB, previously reported that Putin allegedly has a ‘severe form of rapidly progressing cancer’: he suffers from loss of vision, headaches and trembling in his hands. Similar information appeared in an article by New Lines Magazine, in which an unnamed Russian oligarch claimed that the president has serious health problems related to blood cancer.