CAT/OP/ARG/1/Add.1 hour medical and nursing coverage. It also has a psychological support service, which applies the provisions of the Suicide Prevention Programme to all incoming prisoners. 57. The implementation of various prevention and health awareness programmes jointly with the Ministry of Health has been strengthened following the signing of the framework cooperation and assistance agreement between the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Health in June 2008, which has extended coordinated and organized activities between the two ministries thereby ensuring universal access to health care for all persons deprived of their liberty in the federal prison system. B. 1. Conditions of detention Physical conditions 58. The Work and Production Directorate is currently engaged in works to bring substandard prisons into line with the basic habitability conditions set out in Ministry of Justice and Human Rights Decision No. 2892 dated 2 October 2008 (Official Gazette, No. 296), which guarantee health and hygiene by establishing suitable accommodation facilities that conform to uniform parameters based on the international standards of the International Committee of the Red Cross. 59. The Prison Infrastructure Plan calls for more sweeping changes in the design and construction of prisons with a view to creating contained treatment areas and more normal environments, which appear and function in ways similar to non-prison environments. The premises are structured so that persons deprived of their liberty are engaged in organized activities for at least 10 hours per day, with areas provided for tutoring, and settings that are geared to each of the phases of correctional treatment. 60. The Directorate for Workplace Safety and Protection against Accidents is a technical body within the Federal Prison Service that draws up and implements prevention policies in the areas of safety and hygiene, occupational health and protection against accidents, in addition to setting general standards, regulations and procedures for satisfactory compliance with institutional standards. 2. Food 61. With regard to internal controls of all tendering processes, particularly those concerning food purchases, monitoring is conducted through a system integrated into, or in conformity with, the internal control mechanisms of the National Directorate of the Federal Prison Service, as well as several external monitoring mechanisms involved in specific processes or stages of the tendering process. 62. Several Directorate departments, sub-offices and bodies are involved in these monitoring mechanisms, including: the Health Directorate Nutrition Department (responsible for checking and calculating food and meal quantities on the basis of the amount required in each institution), the Accounts Auditing Directorate (which monitors the technical and administrative aspects of the tendering process), and the General Auditing Directorate (which ensures the strict implementation of both administrative procedures and the legal aspects that govern contracts in the national public sector). 63. In its report, the National Directorate of the Federal Prison Service mentioned the participation of the following bodies in all stages of the tendering process: the Internal Auditing Unit, attached to the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, the General Syndicate of the Nation, and the Auditor General of the Nation. It should be noted that all types of purchases and acquisitions are supervised, monitored and evaluated by the National Contracts Office attached to the executive office of the Cabinet of Ministers, which is in GE.14-40297 13