Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has publicly confirmed that she has given her consent to undergo a full medical examination by German doctors who have formally offered their assistance, the ex-premier's defense lawyer, Serhiy Vlasenko, has said.
"Yulia Tymoshenko was impressed by an application of the German doctors, who, through the German ambassador to Ukraine, expressed their readiness to provide medical assistance to her. She is grateful to the German government and personally to Chancellor Angela Merkel for such a decision," Vlasenko said, according to a statement posted on Tymoshenko’s official Web site on Wednesday.
He also said that Tymoshenko had agreed to ensure that along with German experts, the medical commission also includes Ukrainian doctors whom she trusts.
"But the issue concerns truly experienced doctors, for example, the neurosurgeon, Professor Mykola Polischuk, rather than those who disgraced themselves through their participation in false Health Ministry commissions. Of course, Yulia Tymoshenko, like any other person, trusts those specialists who remember the Hippocratic oath, rather than fulfilling all of the whims of [Ukrainian President Viktor] Yanukovych," Vlasenko said.
On Jan. 24, Vlasenko dismissed a statement by Deputy Prosecutor General Yevhen Blazhivsky, according to which Tymoshenko’s associates were allegedly searching for foreign doctors to conduct a medical examination of her.
Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka and German Ambassador to Ukraine Hans-Jurgen Heimsoeth recently discussed a statement by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office regarding assistance to a medical examination of Tymoshenko.
"While commenting on this statement, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka confirmed the readiness of the prosecutor’s office to aid, within its competence, the organization of the work of a joint medical team in order to conduct an independent examination, diagnosis and treatment of Yulia Tymoshenko, if necessary," the media liaisons department of the Prosecutor General’s Office reported.
On Oct. 11, 2011, Pechersky District Court in Kyiv sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office in signing a gas deal with Russia in 2009.
Tymoshenko was put in a pre-trial detention center in Kyiv on Aug. 5, 2011. On Dec. 30, she was transferred to Kachanivska penal colony No. 54 in Kharkiv.
Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky District Court ordered the arrest of Tymoshenko under the UESU case.
Because of this, Tymoshenko is being held in the pretrial detention center of the Kachanivska colony in Kharkiv and is not involved in community work.
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