Batkivschyna: Tymoshenko should be immediately examined in independent …
The Batkivschyna Party has said that former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko should immediately undergo a comprehensive medical examination in a clinic independent of the Ukrainian heath care system in connection with the death of her former cellmate in Lukianivska jail, Svitlana Makeyeva, according to a statement posted on the party’s Web site on Wednesday.
The party noted that the former head of a department at Kyiv City State Administration, Svitlana Makeyeva, who lived in a joint cell with the former premier for several months in 2011, had died of stomach cancer. In connection with this, “the party is seriously concerned about reports of the death of Svitlana Makeyeva.”
Batkivschyna said that while staying in the detention center, Makeyeva periodically ate the food that Tymoshenko could theoretically consume.
Given this, the party is insisting that “Tymoshenko immediately undergo a comprehensive examination in a clinic independent of the Ukrainian health care system, because it makes no sense to trust the Health Ministry, especially in the conditions of symptoms of systematic poisoning.”
Tymoshenko was arrested on August 5, 2011 during the trial of the so-called gas case.
On October 11, 2011, the Pechersky District Court in Kyiv sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for exceeding her authority when signing gas supply contracts with Russia in 2009. She has been serving her sentence at the Kachanivska correctional facility in Kharkiv since late December 2011.
On May 9, 2012, Tymoshenko was moved from the prison to Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 in Kharkiv. The procedures for the ex-premier’s treatment in hospital have been selected by German doctors from the Charite Clinic.