The Health Ministry of Ukraine has denied the report voiced by former health minister Mykola Polischuk, that former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko may have been given an injection of a powerful sleeping drug - sodium hydroxybutyrate (gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, GHB) on Jan. 6, after which she lost consciousness.
"Specialists (of the Health Ministry) came to a conclusion that Tymoshenko had no indications, and therefore was not prescribed or injected GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyric acid) or GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid), which were mentioned by former Health Minister Polischuk, during her stay in Kachanivska penal colony," the Ministry’s press service reported on Tuesday evening.
The report also said that the Health Ministry’s commission, lead by First Deputy Minister Raisa Moiseyenko visited Tymoshenko after a massage session.
The ex-premier refused to communicate or undergo medical check up by the commission, the Health Ministry said.
Professor of Neurosurgery, and former Health Minister Mykola Polischuk has suggested that Yulia Tymoshenko may have been given an injection of a powerful sleeping drug – sodium hydroxybutyrate (gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, GHB) on Jan. 6, after which she lost consciousness.
On Jan. 10, first deputy head of the Batkivschyna Party Oleksandr Turchynov said that Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was unconscious for over two hours in Kachanivska penal colony in Kharkiv, after she was given unknown medicines.
He added that Tymoshenko had been given drugs to treat an acute viral infection.
