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German doctors say they hope that the Ukrainian authorities and, in particular, the courts, will allow former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to continue treatment and give her an eight-week period of rest.

“We hope that this quite reasonable decision will finally be made,
and we are currently trying to reach mutual understanding [with] politicians, the courts and so on,” Charite Clinic CEO Karl Max Einhaupl
said in Kyiv on Monday, July 30, after meeting with Ukrainian Health Minister
Raisa Bohatyriova.

He said that German doctors “had a constructive conversation” with the health minister.

“During this conversation we were able to clearly express our medical
position. Of course, the minister was also able to express her position
from the point of view of Ukrainian doctors. We agreed that the
treatment would continue and that it would continue on the part of
German and Ukrainian doctors,” Einhaupl said.

“We discussed the possibility that in the next eight weeks without
interruption this period should be provided for the effective treatment
of Mrs. Tymoshenko. During these eight weeks there should be no
additional external stressful situations… First and foremost, the
issue concerns the holding of trials,” he said.