The convicted former interior minister, Yuriy Lutsenko, who underwent a surgery in the private clinic Oberig in Kyiv, was transferred back to Mena penal colony in Kyiv region.
The press service of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine reported that on January 30, Lutsenko was discharged by Oberig doctors from the clinic. “Accordingly, the convict has been transferred to Mena colony (No. 91) today,” the report says.
According to the press service, after the planned operation, the doctors provided their recommendations for the further outpatient treatment of Lutsenko, which will be conducted by medical staff of the penal colony.
“Two laboratories – that of the Oberig clinic and of another clinic – confirmed that the material taken for the histological examination after the surgery does not contain cancer cells,” the press service of the People’s Self-Defense party quoted the ex-minister’s wife Iryna Lutsenko.
She said that the doctors told her that they were currently holding a full medical examination of her husband. “The doctors have found three open gastric ulcers. Therefore, Lutsenko was assigned to intensive therapy, he is on a drip,” Iryna Lutsenko explained.
“A control gastroscopic study of the stomach is to be held in three weeks since the start of the treatment. Only in the case of effective treatment and healing of ulcers, respectively, in a month, one can prepare for the next operation. Surgical intervention cannot be conducted if a patient has open ulcers, according to doctors,” she said.
As reported, Lutsenko, who has been serving a sentence in Mena colony, Chernihiv region, since late August 2012, for several crimes involving the abuse of office, since the end of August 2012, agreed to undergo surgery to remove a polyp in his intestine in late December 2012. Larysa Sarhan, press officer for the People’s Self-Defense Party, said Lutsenko would be treated in a private clinic in Kyiv at his own expense.
Lutsenko was transported to Kyiv-based Oberig Clinic on January 20. On January 23, he underwent surgery.
