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A senior medical official has denied an allegation that the health condition of jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is currently at the hospital, has deteriorated. 

“She is in a stable condition. She isn’t feeling worse, definitely not. She is getting solely what the German doctors have prescribed and recommended,” Iryna Fursa, deputy head of Ukrainian Railways Central Clinic No. 5 in Kharkiv, where Tymoshenko is undergoing her treatment, told Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday.

Fursa said Tymoshenko was making no complaints.

Asked when German doctors are to visit Tymoshenko again, Fursa said: “I personally don’t know when German doctors will come, or whether they will come at all, for that matter.”

Oleksandr Turchynov, first deputy leader of Tymoshenko’s Batkivschyna (Fatherland) party, told reporters on Wednesday that during his latest meeting with the ex-premier, about a month after his previous visit to her, he noticed her condition had worsened. He did not elaborate.

Meanwhile, the State Penitentiary Service has asked the Health Ministry to set up a commission to decide how long Tymoshenko should stay in the hospital.

Since she started serving her seven-year sentence at a prison in Kharkiv, Tymoshenko has not attended any court sessions.

A session in her trial in connection with alleged financial offenses of United Energy Systems of Ukraine during her tenure as its chief executive has been postponed until July 31, and a hearing of an appeal against her current sentence put off until August 16.