16:52 22.10.2012

German doctors will decide on Tymoshenko's discharge from hospital, says Kharkiv hospital chief

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German doctors will decide on Tymoshenko's discharge from hospital, says Kharkiv hospital chief

The doctors from the German Charite Clinic will decide whether former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko should be discharged from Central Clinical Hospital of Kharkiv No. 5, where she is undergoing treatment, Chief of Central Clinical Hospital of Kharkiv No. 5 Mykhailo Afanasyev has said.

"We have received a request from patient Tymoshenko and it is being translated into German. The information about the patient's wish to be discharged from the hospital will be sent to the Charite Clinic, to the doctors in charge of her treatment. As long as our German colleagues are fully responsible for the rehabilitation course, its planning and implementation, it is logical that they have to decide whether the rehabilitation course could be completed. Speaking about Ukrainian doctors, from our part we cannot make such decisions. We are just thoroughly fulfilling the recommendations of doctors from the Charite Clinic," Afanasyev said.

On October 11, 2011, Pechersky District Court in Kyiv sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for overstepping her authority when signing 2009 gas contracts with Russia. She has served her sentence in Kachanivska Penal Colony in Kharkiv since late December 2011.

On May 9, Tymoshenko was transferred to Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 in Kharkiv for treatment. The ex-premier's course of treatment in hospital was drawn up by German doctors from the Charite Clinic.

Earlier, Tymoshenko wrote an open letter to the president with a request to return her from the clinic to the prison. She also complained about round the clock video surveillance in her ward.

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