Kharkiv - Doctor Anette Reisshauer from the Charite clinic in Berlin has arrived at the central clinic hospital N5 in Kharkiv to continue the treatment of Ukraine's ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
The German doctor arrived in Kharkiv on Thursday afternoon, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent said.
Kyiv’s Pechersky District Court found Tymoshenko guilty of abuse of
office in concluding a gas supply deal with Russia in 2009 and sentenced
her to 7 years in prison on October 11, 2011.
A court of appeals later upheld this sentence. The Ukrainian Higher
Special Court for Civil and Criminal Cases postponed a hearing of
Tymoshenko’s and her defense team’s appeal against her conviction to
June 26, motivating this by Tymoshenko’s absence in the courtroom for
health reasons.
Tymoshenko has been serving her 7-year prison term at a Kharkiv-based
penitentiary since the end of 2011. At the present time, she is
receiving medical treatment at Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 in
Kharkiv, which belongs to the Ukrainian Railway company.
Reisshauer earlier treated the ex-prime minister in May.
