Timoshenko’s condition worsening despite treatment

"Her condition is not improving despite medical treatment," he said on Monday, January 30.

Vlasenko stressed that Timoshenko continues to reject medical examination offered by the Health Ministry. At the same time, Timoshenko has asked the administration of the Kachanivska penal colony, where she is serving her term, to allow Ukrainian medics led by neurosurgeon Nikolai Polishchuk to examine her.

German medics submitted documents to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry last week in a bid to get access to Timoshenko. "Necessary formal procedures are underway now," the lawyer said.

Ukrainian mass media report that Timoshenko's husband, Alexander Timoshenko, who has been given political asylum in the Czech Republic, has asked prominent Czech physician, former Health Minister Zuzana Roitova to lead a team of independent medics to examine his wife.

A commission of Ukrainian Health Ministry specialists consisting of a traumatologist, neurosurgeon, neurologist, and a physician visited Timoshenko in the cell last week and suggested that she undergo a medical examination and take tests, but she refused.

The commission arrived at the request of the colony administration following Timoshenko's health complaints. It advised the colony's medics to continue the course of treatment earlier prescribed to Timoshenko.

The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office said it would be ready to arrange for the work of an international medical group to examine Timoshenko; Kazinform cites Itar-Tass.

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