{"id":18987,"date":"2026-05-26T09:43:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/?p=18987"},"modified":"2026-05-26T09:48:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:48:40","slug":"the-famous-surgeon-from-poti-gogi-melikia-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/the-famous-surgeon-from-poti-gogi-melikia-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"The famous surgeon from Poti, Gogi Melikia, has passed away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"2\"><b class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">Famous Poti-based surgeon, Cavalier of the Order of Honor, and Honorary Citizen of Poti, Gogi Melikia, has passed away.<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\"><span class=\"\">He was born in Poti in 1942,<\/span><span class=\"\"> and following his graduation from the Tbilisi Medical Institute,<\/span><span class=\"\"> dedicated decades of service to his hometown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\"><span class=\"\">Over the years,<\/span><span class=\"\"> Gogi Melikia headed Poti\u2019s First Polyclinic and the Maternity Hospital,<\/span><span class=\"\"> and also served as the Chief Physician and Chief Surgeon of the Central Clinical Hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\"><span class=\"\">He also made immense contributions to his country.<\/span><span class=\"\"> Mr.<\/span><span class=\"\"> Gogi participated in the Abkhazia War as a physician for the Poti Battalion,<\/span><span class=\"\"> and during the August 2008 War,<\/span><span class=\"\"> when Poti was bombed,<\/span><span class=\"\"> he was actively engaged in providing medical care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\"><b class=\"\" data-path-to-node=\"6\" data-index-in-node=\"0\">&#8220;The wake will be held on Thursday and Friday. The funeral will take place on Saturday, May 30th. Address: 33 Dumbadze Street, Poti,&#8221;<\/b><span class=\"\"> the family members of the deceased wrote on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famous Poti-based surgeon, Cavalier of the Order of Honor, and Honorary Citizen of Poti, Gogi Melikia, has passed away. He was born in Poti in 1942, and following his graduation from the Tbilisi Medical Institute, dedicated decades of service to his hometown. Over the years, Gogi Melikia headed Poti\u2019s First Polyclinic and the Maternity Hospital, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18986,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1594],"tags":[5681],"class_list":["post-18987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-gogi-melikia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18990,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18987\/revisions\/18990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medscriptum.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}