Zurab Azarashvili, the Georgian health minister, on Wednesday confirmed the Polish medical professionals had submitted an application to get involved in the treatment of the currently imprisoned former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, but added the application had come without mandatory documents. 

"Only an application has been submitted, where they [the doctors] request the granting of the right to work in the country for a long time. The issuance of the corresponding right requires a list of documentation, which is not so difficult to provide. Unfortunately, the documentation was not included with the application," Azarashvili told the media, adding the documents were about the doctors' experience. and qualifications.

Polish doctors have been waiting for several weeks to receive a license from the Georgian health ministry to visit Saakashvili in the Vivamedi civilian clinic in Tbilisi, where the former official has been receiving treatment since May 2022.

On March 16, EU official sources confirmed to RFE/RL that the Georgian side allowed Polish doctors to visit the former president.

On the same day, the ministry of justice of Georgia issued a statement that the penitentiary service "will not be against" the invited doctors to treat Saakashvili, if they met the prerequisites defined by the Georgian legislation.

In March, the spokesman of the Polish government said the group of doctors was ready to come to Georgia to study Saakashvili’s condition. 

Before that, the Georgian justice minister Rati Bregadze said it was his office’s offer to Saakashvili’s family to invite doctors from “any clinic”.