KHARKIV - Doctors from the Berlin clinic Charite may come to Ukrainian Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko at Kharkiv-based Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 on Thursday, a source close to the medical community told Interfax-Ukraine.
The office of the Kharkiv clinic administrator neither denied nor confirmed the news.
“There are not here now. We do not know whether they will come or not,” an office representative told Interfax-Ukraine.
Kyiv’s Pechersky District Court found Tymoshenko guilty of abuse of
office in signing gas supply contracts with Russia in 2009 and sentenced
her to 7 years in prison on October 11, 2011. Tymoshenko has been
serving her sentence at a penitentiary in Kharkiv since the end of
December 2011.
On May 9, 2012, Tymoshenko was transferred to Central Clinical
Hospital No. 5 in Kharkiv to undergo a treatment course in line with
recommendations by doctors from the Berlin-based Charite clinic. The
last time German doctors visited their patient in Kharkiv was on October
14.
The day after the parliamentary elections in Ukraine, on October 29, Tymoshenko went on a hunger strike to protest vote rigging.
