The Health Ministry of Ukraine has joined a call by German physicians to end public speculation over the results of the medical inspection of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
"No part of the findings of Tymoshenko’s checkup has been made public," the Health Ministry said in a statement published on Wednesday.
In addition, the ministry said: "The findings of the international commission, as well as any information about the patient’s diagnosis, are private health information, which none of the experts who were members of the commission have disclosed, either in official news reports on the medical examination of Yulia Tymoshenko, or in comments to the media. Ukrainian doctors have abided by all the arrangements for confidentiality."
It was reported earlier that a panel of German, Canadian and Ukrainian medical specialists examined Tymoshenko at the penitentiary on Feb. 14-15.
After that, Yevhen Pedachenko, the head of a division at the Romodanov Neurosurgery Institute and a member of this panel, said in Kharkiv that Tymoshenko’s condition did not require surgical intervention.
Tymoshenko’s defense lawyer, Serhiy Vlasenko, in turn, said that independent foreign doctors had noted that the former prime minister was suffering from a severe illness.
The Health Ministry recalled that the recommendations on Tymoshenko’s treatment were handed to the doctors of the State Penitentiary Service.
