Zaki: Sister, now she also suffers from sinusitis

In addition to the back pain that has been tormenting him for months as he

, now Patrick George Zaki is also suffering from allergic sinusitis and there is concern as

.

The Egyptian student of the University of Bologna in prison in Cairo for over a year is also becoming increasingly depressed and tries to show himself strong.

His sister, Marise George, told ANSA.

"He has severe back pain", wrote the young woman confirming a malaise complained by Patrick since at least December.

"Also currently, with the sandstorms that have been in Egypt, he suffers from allergic sinusitis," he added.

Although unable to specify the number of inmates living with him "since some are released", Marise stated that "we recently heard that one of his cell mates was showing severe symptoms; but we cannot be sure because the inmate is not he was subjected to a PCR test ", to a molecular swab, and therefore" there was no way to confirm that it was Covid-19 ".

"Lately he

, feeling stuck and living in uncertainty about when this will all end. However he is trying to look strong," wrote Marise reporting that her brother "is always sleeping on the floor because the Tora prison facility in which he has no beds. We don't know how many blankets he sleeps on, but previously we could only give him two blankets. "

"As far as we know", Patrick "has two hours of air a day; but from Thursday afternoon to Saturday morning he is locked up and therefore cannot go outside all Friday", his sister said again.

Speaking of the

to the student of the Alma Mater of Bologna, Marise recalled that "during the first 6 months of the lockdown, when visits were not allowed, most of the time they did not allow us to send him any books. But now that we are allowed to send him things, we assume he has at most 5-7 books, "he added. 

Regarding the

, the sister reported that Patrick "eats the food that his mother can send him every week and, if he runs out, he buys it at the canteen of the prison".