UKRAINE: Security high at a hospital in Kharkiv, where imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko had been expected to receive treatment until news came she had delayed a move to the medical facility from jail until Wednesday
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UKRAINE: Security high at a hospital in Kharkiv, where imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko had been expected to receive treatment until news came she had delayed a move to the medical facility from jail until Wednesday
- Title: UKRAINE: Security high at a hospital in Kharkiv, where imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko had been expected to receive treatment until news came she had delayed a move to the medical facility from jail until Wednesday
- Date: 9th May 2012
- Summary: KHARKIV, UKRAINE (MAY 8, 2012) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF ENTRANCE OF CENTRAL CLINICAL HOSPITAL NO. 5 OF THE UKRAINIAN RAILROADS POLICE AND POLICE VEHICLES IN HOSPITAL YARD AMBULANCE ARRIVES AT HOSPITAL HOSPITAL EXTERIOR VARIOUS OF POLICE WITH DOGS IN GROUNDS OF HOSPITAL NURSES AT WINDOW POLICE WITH DOGS BARRED WINDOWS (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) RAISA MOISEENKO DEPUTY UKRAINE HEALTH MINISTER SAYING "The head of the neurological clinic at the Charite hospital came to check out the technical facilities and the staff at this hospital. He met the staff and was impressed with the clinic facilities, now we will go to Yulia Vladimirovna (Tymoshenko) finally, so we can again offer her treatment here, as was agreed with the previous specialists from Charite - Mr Eind and Mr Haas. Today everything seems alright, it looks like she wants to be treated." CARS GOING THROUGH HOSPITAL GATES POLICE IN GROUNDS
- Embargoed: 24th May 2012 13:00
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- Topics: Politics
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- Story Text: Ukrainian police officers patrolled the territory of a Kharkiv hospital on Tuesday (May 8) where imprisoned opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko had been expected to receive treatment.
But later on Tuesday Tymoshenko refused to be moved from prison to hospital, though leaving open the possibility of a move there on Wednesday, the state prison service said.
Police patrolled Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 of the Ukrainian Railroads in Kiev as security officers with dogs policed the grounds. Deputy Ukraine Health Minister Raisa Moiseenko said that specialists from the Charite hospital in Berlin had inspected the clinic.
"The head of the neurological clinic at the Charite hospital came to check out the technical facilities and the staff at this hospital. He met the staff and was impressed with the clinic facilities, now we will go to Yulia Vladimirovna (Tymoshenko) finally, so we can again offer her treatment here, as was agreed with the previous specialists from Charite - Mr Eind and Mr Haas. Today everything seems alright, it looks like she wants to be treated," Moiseenko said.
The plight of Tymoshenko, a former prime minister who says she is being unjustly persecuted by her rival, President Viktor Yanukovich, has embittered the former Soviet republic's relations with the West and dented its international image.
She launched a hunger strike on April 20 in protest over what she said was brutal mistreatment in prison. She alleged prison guards beat her during a forced visit to hospital and her supporters circulated photographs showing bruises on her arms and abdomen. The authorities deny any mistreatment.
After authorities refused last week to release her to go abroad to Germany for treatment for back pains she tentatively agreed to be treated at a local hospital in Kharkiv under the supervision of German doctors. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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