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• Topics / The right to health care
Daryna Radchenko fined for defending her mother
22.08.2013
Daryna Radchenko has been fined for trying to stop her perfectly healthy and sane civic activist mother from being placed in a psychiatric hospital and subjected to “treatment” against her will.
Raisa Radchenko: Psychiatric restraint court order quashed
09.08.2013
On Thursday 8 August, the Zaporizhya Regional Court of Appeal quashed a lower court ruling which had ordered the forced confinement in a psychiatric hospital of 70-year-old civic activist Raisa Radchenko
HIV patients evicted from Kyiv Pecherska Lavra to nowhere
05.08.2013
Despite the assurances of Father Pavel, Head of the Lavra, patients from the HIV/AIDS and Viral Hepatitis Clinic until now situated on the territory of the Kyiv Pecherska Lavra have already been evicted
Raisa Radchenko released
26.07.2013
Raisa Radchenko is already home with her daughter and grandson with the official version presented by the Health Ministry being that her forced psychiatric treatment was warranted, with the treatment having “considerably improved her state of health”
Health Ministry begins psychiatric examination of Raisa Radchenko
26.07.2013
The police appear to have accused Darya Radchenko, the 70-year-old civic activist Raisa Radchenko’s daughter, of obstructing officers when they were forcing her mother into a psychiatric hospital.
The Courts deprived a man of any chance of survival
23.07.2013
Ihor Parfenyuk, who was gravely ill, has died in the Kherson Prison Colony The prison administration had applied to the court for his early release, however neither HIV, nor hepatitis C, nor tuberculosis of both lungs and the intestine were deemed grounds for the courts to release him
The Real Danger to the Public
20.07.2013
70-year-old civic activist, Raisa Radchenko, remains in a psychiatric hospital against her will while the glimmer of hope provided by a statement from the Human Rights Ombudsperson on Thursday is, for the moment, only that
AI URGENT ACTION: Forced psychiatric treatment for activist: Raisa Radchenko
16.07.2013
Please help call for 70-year-old civic activist Raisa Radchenko to be given a psychiatric examination outside the Zaporizhya Region to ensure impartiality and that she not be subjected to any treatment until she has exhausted all legal remedies;
Civic Activist to face forced psychiatric treatment
15.07.2013
Raisa Radchenko, a civic activist campaigning against corruption in the housing and communal services sphere and the law enforcement agencies has been taken to a psychiatric hospital. The doctors assert she needs inpatient care, she, her family and friends claim it is retailiation for her civic activities
ECHR asks for information regarding medical care for detainee
03.07.2013
The European Court of Human Rights has asked for information regarding medical care being provided a detainee at the Lukyanivsk SIZO in Kyiv who has AIDS. KHPG approached the Court since the detainee’s life is in danger
A Win for Palliative Care in Ukraine
01.07.2013
Terminally ill patients and their families have received a long awaited piece of good news. After decades of restrictive drug policies severely limiting access to opioids for pain relief
Another Kyiv SIZO detainee’s life in danger
14.06.2013
KHPG is calling for urgent measures to ensure that a detainee receive medical treatment and that the court considers a different preventive measure.
On irresponsible behaviour which left a baby with HIV
07.06.2013
Oleh Nesynov from the Kharkiv Human Rights Group Network Legal Aid Network for Vulnerable Groups in Society recently succeeded in getting a child infected with HIV half a million UAH in compensation.
Health reforms hazardous to health
29.04.2013
Human rights organizations have released their annual report on Human Rights in Healthcare – 2012. Its authors note that during the year the situation only improved in the sphere of palliative medicine
Another senseless death in detention
29.03.2013
Another detainee held in a Ukrainian SIZO [remand unit] has died because he was deprived access to methadone replacement therapy
Court finally listens over death of remand prisoner
06.03.2013
Volodymyr Kutsenko, a KHPG lawyer, has finally succeeded - at cassation level in the High Specialized Court on Civil and Criminal Cases - in getting a criminal case initiated over the death of a remand prisoner
Conflicting assessments of Tymoshenko’s state of health
01.03.2013
German doctors from the Charite Clinic in Berlin have examined imprisoned former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and “strongly advise her to continue treatment in hospital conditions
Lutsenko refused release on health grounds
19.02.2013
Ukraine’s leaders have little time left to put aside the selective justice which has led to the imprisonment of the most prominent opposition figures in the country and seriously marred Ukraine’s reputation. The refusal to release Lutsenko is clearly a bad sign.
When no sentence can be a death sentence
08.02.2013
Olena Karas writes of yet another harrowing case where a person with serious illnesses has been held without proper treatment in SIZO [pre-trial detention centre] for a year.
Why gravely ill prisoners are not released
23.01.2013
An analysis of the grounds for turning down applications for early release of prisoners with grave conditions, with these unfortunately including shoddy preparation of applications, etc
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