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Does anyone have more detailed information about the "520 resolution" and its impact on GHG?

https://bm.ge/en/article/resolution-520-is-absolutely-unprepared--khechinashvili-university-clinic/44704

Apparently there are upper limits put on certain medical procedures. Also GEL devalued to extreme values in the last 9 months (against EUR it is comparable with other currencies, against USD it is strangely and unreasonably low) and I cannot imagine how hospitals with foreign expenses (imported specialized material) will be able to stay profitable.

I found interview with a local doctor, Anzor Melia, which made me even more confused. He said hospitals will go bankrupt. A group of 20+ local healthcare providers signed a petition against the reform and the only group that didn't sign it was Evex (GHG), he added that "and you know who owns that" (well afaik it is public... what is he referring to?). Add to that that his son is an opposition politician who was arrested last year because of protests, now this week GD won the elections.

It is difficult to find any relevant information, I found an interview from local media, video in Georgian...

BGEO will probably be fine, they made huge write-offs in Q1, probably more than necessary. Other business parts also don't look bad, especially energy looks fine. I'm worried about the biggest part, healthcare.

I'm not sure it is truly derisked, that is what they wrote in their investor presentation, yes. However, the CEZ participation isn't just free money given to EMH. It is a convertible loan, not even given to EMH but to the Geomet a.s. subsidiary, with an 8% interest rate. They can then convert it to equity (5%, and they have 51% in Geomet).

So the only thing that is derisked is that the company won't run out of cash in the next 2-4 quarters. What happens then is a big unknown. The Germans (Zinnwald, Erris) on the other side of the border are definitely much less optimistic about the project.

Also the original plan counted with extracting other metals (tin, perhaps tungsten...) but after research done by Severoceske doly (CEZ subsidiary) they found out this doesn't make sense (percentage not high enough, not magnetic enough) and the only other thing besides lithium that can be processed (according to current plan) could be cement production.

The original feasibility study said Avg Production Cost (without credits) $5,211 /t and Avg Production Cost (with credits) $3,483/t. The second number now seems out of question and the reality will be somewhere in between ($4500-$5000/t ?). So the entire project can be revaluated.

I just started to research similar companies and the most similar one I stumbled upon (except Zinnwald across the border) is probably Nemaska Lithium (NMX) in Canada.

I may be wrong, however the project sounded very very similar - supposedly large resource, low cost, production of spodumene concentrate from hard rock which is then processed into lithium sulfate. Easy mining, difficult processes (https://www.nemaskalithium.com/en/whabouchi/proprietary-processes/)

The Cínovec project makes most economical sense when multiple metals (tin, tungsten?) are extracted and for lithium the final product (concentrate?) is also produced. It doesn't make economical sense to just mine it and send to China or somewhere else. Nemaska wanted to use "proprietary processes that use electrolysis" but now they ran out of funds and possibly realized it makes no sense because additional hundreds of millions usd were required and it turned out to be economically unfeasible.

So what are the most important differences between Nemaska and Cínovec?