Former premier Yulia Tymoshenko has not given written consent to be transferred to the Central Clinical Hospital No.5 of Ukrzaliznytsia in Kharkiv, the head of the State Penitentiary Service's department in Kharkiv region, Yevhen Barash, has said.
"She did not give written consent. Tymoshenko was sent for inpatient treatment to the Central Clinical Hospital No.5 in line with Ukrainian law. We don’t need to have a written agreement of jailed persons to treat them," he said on April 21 at a briefing near the Kachanivska Penal Colony in Kharkiv.
He said that a decision to go to the hospital was made by Tymoshenko late on April 20 after she spoke to her lawyer and later she got the conclusions of German doctors.
Barash said that Tymoshenko agreed to go to the hospital in the presence of penal colony officers and members of the medical commission. Near 2100 ambulances were called and they took the former prime minister and another jailed woman with a similar pathology to the hospital.
