Serhiy Vlasenko, a defense lawyer of former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko, has said that the Ukrainian Health Ministry's commission may not evaluate the state of health of his client.
"The defense team does not understand how the Health Ministry is related to the treatment of Yulia Volodymyrivna. Only the doctors that are in charge of her treatment can evaluate her state of health," he told Interfax-Ukraine on Wednesday, while commenting on the ministry's statement that the ex-premier does not need treatment any more, but is remaining in hospital at her own request.
The lawyer also accused the Health Ministry of creating "stressful situations" for Tymoshenko every day.
Earlier, First Deputy Health Minister of Ukraine Raisa Moiseyenko said that Tymoshenko did not need treatment at a hospital any more, although the term of her hospitalization has been prolonged by another month.
According to Moiseyenko, a doctor from the German Charite Clinic, Lutz Harms, and Chief of Ukrzaliznytsia's Clinic in Kharkiv Mykhailo Afanasyev came to such a conclusion. The doctors said that the rehabilitation course of Tymoshenko was successful and has positive results.
"According to the conclusion of the medical commission, today there is no medical or other reason for the further hospitalization of the patient. The commission came to a conclusion that patient Tymoshenko does not need to be treated in hospital," Moiseyenko said.
