The doctors' council examined the test results and assessed Mikheil Saakashvili, to decide whether he needed hospitalisation. The council recommended placing the former president in a clinic for intensive observation, said one of its participants, Zurab Pagava. The politician's personal doctor agrees with the decision, but Saakashvili continues to refuse medical assistance.

Mikheil Saakashvili returned to Georgia on October 1, on the eve of the elections, even though at home he was convicted in absentia in two criminal cases. After his arrest, which the authorities had warned him about in advance, the former president went on a hunger strike in a Rustavi prison. On October 12, Saakashvili's supporters held a protest, demanding that he be transferred to a hospital, and the Ministry of Justice asked the Ministry of Health to provide a group of doctors to monitor the politician's health. Mikheil Saakashvili's condition worsened, his doctor Nikoloz Kipshidze said on October 17.

After returning to Georgia, Saakashvili was arrested, as he was sentenced in absentia at home to three years in the case of abuse of power when pardoning those convicted for the murder of businessman Sandro Girgvliani and six years in the case of the 2005 beating of parliamentary deputy Valery Gelashvili. He was also faced with other charges.

It should be noted that the Penitentiary Service has not reported on Saakashvili's state of health in the past few days.