Novichok poisoning victim Charlie Rowley is planning on leaving hospital in the next few weeks.
Mr Rowley is currently being treated at Salisbury District Hospital for meningitis and loss of eyesight two months after he and his partner Dawn Sturgess were poisoned by the nerve agent.
The pair fell ill at Mr Rowley’s home in Amesbury, near Salisbury on June 30 and Ms Sturgess, a mother-of-three, died in hospital eight days later having never regained consciousness.
It is believed they were exposed to a military grade nerve agent from a perfume bottle discarded by those responsible for the attack on former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia.
The father and daughter were found unconscious on a park bench in Salisbury city centre in March having been poisoned by Novichok. They have since been released from hospital.
The attacks caused an international diplomatic incident, with Home Secretary Sajid Javid accusing the Russian state of using Britain as a “dumping ground for poison”.
Mr Rowley was originally released from hospital on July 20 but was readmitted two weeks ago suffering from meningitis.
He told ITV News he was “feeling positive about the news” he was hearing from doctors and is “hoping to get out of hospital in the next two or three weeks”.
Mr Rowley said his eyesight has “improved” but is not yet fully restored and said there was still “a bit of meningitis in the system”.
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