Mykhailo Afanasyev, the head of Central Clinical Hospital No.5 (Kharkiv), said the presence of the parliamentarians who have refused to leave former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is reflecting on the situation in the hospital.

"The situation in the hospital is becoming increasingly tense. We have had several difficult moments and the situation is very difficult now because many people are staying on a small area," Afanasyev told reporters on Thursday.

Afanasyev recalled that Tymoshenko's ward is located on the same floor as the intensive care unit, where five patients were located on Wednesday evening. Two surgeries are scheduled to take place there on Thursday, Afanasyev said.

"There was no yelling, but there is walking, opening and closing of doors. People in the intensive care unit can hear all this. Yesterday I had to come up to one of the patients, who had had a spine surgery, twice to calm him because he was complaining that he couldn't get any rest," Afanasyev said.

Afanasyev said he is hoping that the situation "will be resolved as soon as possible.

According to earlier reports, Tymoshenko's lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko issued an address by Tymoshenko to President Viktor Yanukovych stating she was beginning a personal civil resistance action on January 8.

On January 16, Oleksandra Kuzhel, Tetiana Sliuz, and Liudmyla Denisova (members of the opposition party Batkivschyna) came to Central Clinical Hospital №5 to visit Tymoshenko. They said the main purpose of their visit was to support Tymoshenko, but later said they were joining her civil resistance action and would remain with her until her demands were fulfilled.