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 The Ukrainian contingent of the international medical commission for examining jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is due to visit her on Monday at the clinic where she is being treated, the head of the hospital said on Thursday. 

Ukrainian doctors will assess Tymoshenko’s condition and evaluate the results of her rehabilitative treatment, Mykhailo Afanasyev, head of Ukrainian Railroads Clinic Hospital No. 5 in Kharkiv, told Interfax-Ukraine.

“We expect the Ukrainian contingent of the international medical commission to arrive on December 17. I think that the doctors will offer to conduct an examination. In any case, the doctors will have, as usual, to document their conclusions on the condition of the patient and her rehabilitation process,” Afanasyev said.

In October 2011, a court in Kyiv convicted Tymoshenko of abuse of office in striking a natural gas deal with Russia in 2009 that is said to be damaging to Ukraine.

Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in prison and was moved to the Kachanivska Correctional Colony in Kharkiv in December last year, but since May she has been receiving inpatient treatment at Clinic Hospital No. 5 under the oversight of doctors from the Charite clinic in Berlin.

Afanasyev said in his interview with Interfax on Thursday that his hospital has been accurately following the recommendations of the German specialists.

“Everything is going according to plan, and the patient is following those recommendations,” he said.