Russian militaries ban doctors to examine Perevi residents

Georgian doctors were stopped by Russian militaries at a block post and could not get into Perevi village, Sachkher District, where they wanted to conduct medical examination of the villagers; therefore, they were forced to do it and spread medicines in the neighbouring village of Dzhriya, controlled by the Georgian party.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that this was announced by Zurab Tsertsvadze, head of the local administration. Under his information, Russian militaries had toughened control at the block post, but, despite it, locals all the same manage to get to Dzhriya for examination.

The building of the elementary school in Dzhriya is used for free-of-charge medical examination of the villagers from Perevi, Dzhriya and Kardzmani, conducted by 15 doctors who came from Kutaisi under the campaign of the Centre of Intervention Medicine of Western Georgia.

As reported by the Internet agency "Interpressnews", Murat Dzhioev, head of the MIA of South Ossetia, explained the ban for the doctors to enter the village by the fact that it is the territory of a sovereign state, and Georgian doctors should have coordinated their actions with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of South Ossetia.

In his turn, Paata Zakareishvili, a political scientist and human rights activist, made his comments on the incident: "Occupation of Perevi by Russian military units is beyond any logic. Perevi has no attitude to the territory of South Ossetia; however, it has strategic value; that is why Russians are there, although they have no legal and moral grounds. From the start of the occupation, Ossetians even hoisted their flag there, but Russians removed it saying that it is not the Ossetian land."

"The ban for doctors to enter the village was introduced by the Russian party. Despite statements of Dzhioev, a members of Kokoity's administration (of Eduard Kokoity - President of South Ossetia, - comment of the "Caucasian Knot"), they have nothing to do with it," the "Resonansi" newspaper quotes the political scientist.