Ukrainian Health Minister Oleksandr Anishchenko has said that former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is now being held in the Kachanivska penal colony in Kharkiv, will be examined by a ministry commission on Friday.
"Our commission will again visit her today," he told journalists in Kyiv on Friday.
Anishchenko said that the decision to send the ministry’s commission to Tymoshenko was stipulated by the fact that the penitentiary system has no specialists of the required level and that it does not have the kind of equipment that exists in the civilian healthcare system.
The minister said that on Jan. 4 the former prime minister was examined by a commission of nine doctors, who noted improvements in Tymoshenko’s health condition, and "the conclusion was made yesterday that her condition is satisfactory."
Anishchenko also said that the commission had offered Tymoshenko to continue the assigned course of pills, have massages and take physical exercise. The experts also recommended that the former prime minister move more.
He said that on Thursday, specialists visited Tymoshenko to do a massage and hold the first lesson on exercise therapy, but she asked them to postpone this lesson until Jan.10.
On Oct.11, 2011, the 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 has been in a pre-trial detention center in Kyiv since Aug. 5, 2011. On Dec. 30, she was transferred to Kachanivska Penal Colony No. 54 in Kharkiv.
