duty are available around the clock; ensure prompt referrals and ambulances for specialist health care outside detention facilities; (h) Introduce health screening of inmates before admission to places of detention and of the entire inmate population; take steps to provide adequate treatment to persons infected with HIV/AIDS and hepatitis, as well to persons with psychosocial disabilities; take vigorous steps to prevent the infection in prison of inmates who are healthy on arrival; and give consideration to and examine the possible benefits and/or adverse effects of the introduction of substitution and needle exchange programmes. Monitoring places of detention and complaints procedure 24. While noting that the Prison Advisory Board, the National Human Rights Commission, the Ombudsman and some civil society organizations are able to visit places of detention and the voluntary engagement of the State party to consider ratifying the Optional Protocol to the Convention, the Committee is concerned that the State party has not established a national system to independently monitor and inspect all places of detention, including psychiatric institutions and social care homes, and the lack of an independent mechanism to receive and investigate complaints (arts. 2, 11, 12, 13 and 16). 25. The State party should: (a) Establish a national system that independently, effectively and regularly monitors and inspects all places of detention, including psychiatric institutions and social care homes, without prior notice; that is able to meet in private with detainees and receive complaints; has institutional independence; reports publicly on its findings and is able to raise with the authorities detention conditions or conduct in places of detention amounting to torture or ill-treatment; (b) Ensure that complainants are protected against any ill-treatment, intimidation or reprisals as a consequence of their complaint; (c) Ensure that all complaints of torture or ill-treatment are promptly investigated in an impartial manner and that suspected perpetrators are immediately suspended from duty during the investigation, duly tried, and, if found guilty, punished in a manner that is commensurate with the gravity of their acts; (d) Ensure that the authorities conduct investigations on their own initiative, whenever there are reasonable grounds to believe that an act of torture or ill-treatment has been committed. National Human Rights Commission 26. While taking note of the ongoing legislative process to enact the National Human Rights Commission Bill, the Committee is concerned that National Human Rights Commission, which was established under the Protection of Human Rights Act 2009 does not comply with the Principles Relating to the Status of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (the Paris Principles) (art. 2). 27. The State party should strengthen the National Human Rights Commission by ensuring adequate financial and staffing resources to enable it to carry out its mandate effectively and independently, in compliance with the Principles Relating to the Status of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (the Paris Principles), with pluralism of staff and their selection by a clear, transparent and participatory process, and should encourage it to seek accreditation by the Subcommittee on Accreditation of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. The State party should also expedite the adoption of the “Seychelles Human Rights Bill”. Non-refoulement and asylum 28. While noting that the State party has acceded to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and to the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, the Committee is concerned that the State party does not have a national legislative asylum 7