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The fact that non-medical staff are not allowed to be present during medical examination of
persons deprived of liberty shall be stated on visibly placed notices in waiting rooms, on the
outer side of doors to doctors’ offices and inside doctors’ offices; all officers of the Security
Department should also be given notice of this. If a physician demands the presence of nonmedical staff during examination or other medical work, such request and the identities of the
non-medical staff who are present must be entered in the medical record of the person deprived
of liberty.
The initial examination of detainees/convicts must include full-body examination without
clothes, for the purpose of detecting any bodily harm that may be linked with violent treatment
of persons deprived of liberty. In connection with such examination, medical records must
include relevant statements: either a statement that a full-body examination was performed and
no injuries were found or a description of any injuries found.
It is necessary to prepare a plan and perform regular (periodic) examinations of persons deprived
of liberty at intervals not longer than three months. Such examinations must, as a minimum,
cover all aspects included in the initial medical examination, with any additional measures
undertaken as appropriate taking into account the health status of individual inmates. The
findings of such regular (periodic) examinations shall be notified in writing to the Facility’s
warden minimum once a year, or more frequently if necessary due to improved or deteriorated
health of an inmate, and in any case whenever any change in an inmate’s health status is found.
As the Facility has no dental surgery, it should arrange for a relevant health care institution to
provide dental services to persons deprived of liberty by setting a weekly quota of patients who
would be received, which quota shall be distributed at relatively regular intervals (every two or
three days); the arranged weekly quota shall not include persons deprived of libery who are
referred for emergency dental services outside of the Facility (e.g. toothache, tooth abscesses etc.)
and such persons shall be provided with emergency dental services during the working hours
of the dental establishment and based on an assessment of the Facility’s physician.
The Facility’s physician shall forthwith, and in any case within maximum seven days, establish
and begin maintaining records of convicts’ injuries. In such records, the physician shall present
the allegations of the injured person about the way in which the injuries were sustained and the
physician’s opinion on the origin of the injuries.
The Penal and Correctional Facility in Šabac shall ensure that, within maximum six months, the
closed section of the Facility occupied by detainees and convicts, who spend most of their time
in their rooms, is provided with dormitories designated as non-smoking areas. These rooms shall
be marked in accordance with the Law on Protection of the Population from Exposure to Tobacco
Smoke. Other measures provided for by the said Law shall be implemented as well. The
dormitories designated as non-smoking areas shall be used for the placement of detainees and
convicts who demand to be protected from exposure to tobacco smoke.
The physician shall present the warden with written findings and recommendations on ways to
improve hygiene at the Facility and among the inmates and shall describe the current state of
sanitation conditions and facilities, heating, lighting and ventilation in the rooms used by
inmates.
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The District Prison in Novi Sad shall provide the required amount of space per detainee, so that
each detainee has minimum eight cubic metres and four square metres of space at his disposal.
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