63 Following the visits to the Regional Centres of the Border Police at the BCPs with Bulgaria and Macedonia, the Police Administration in Vranje, Reception Centre in Padinska Skela and the Border Police Station in Belgrade at the “Nikola Tesla“ Airport, the NPM recommended to the Ministry of Interior to provide written leaflets containing information about the legal status of migrants and their rights, in the languages they would understand, to be distributed by the police officers to the migrants, and that for the sake of a clear and precise communication they provide the translators/interpreters. However, the Ministry informed the NPM that they did not act upon these recommendations due to the lack of funds and human resources, but that in the near future, they would take into consideration the possibility of developing the leaflet. NPM identified major shortcomings in the organization of health care for foreigners placed in the Reception Centre in Padinska Skela and the confidentiality of their health condition and the prescribed therapy. After the recommendations have been addressed to rectify these omissions, the NPM was informed that the Ministry of Interior has no HR, spatial or financial capacities to ensure the permanent presence of medical staff in the Reception Centre, as well as that they would undertake additional actions to ensure that the nearby Penal and Correctional Institution in Belgrade – Padinska Skela, provides the regular health care to foreign persons. In the course of the reporting period, the NPM paid special attention to the protection of the most vulnerable groups of refugees and migrants, particularly the children and women. During the NPM visit, the conditions for the accommodation of children, pregnant women and mothers of new-born babies were checked including the provision of health care to female migrants and children and whether the competent authorities provided adequate and timely interventions in the cases of domestic violence, human trafficking and abuse and neglection of children. It was noted that identification of unaccompanied children was performed with difficulties, due to which the NPM addressed the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs with the recommendation to take measures to establish specific procedures and develop mechanisms for having a more efficient identification of minors as well as of other particularly vulnerable categories of people requiring additional assistance and care.

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