5. Taking measures in order to equip each internal-regime room with electronic bell, in order to facilitate patient-staff communication in case of emergency assistance. 6. Taking immediate measures to provide heat in all premises, as stipulated in the agreement with QSUT Directorate. 7. Taking measures for the improvement of room conditions and full repair of showers and toilets, and the improvement of their hygiene-sanitary conditions. 8. Taking measures to furbish patients’ rooms with furniture, sheets, matrasses, tables and chairs, in order to provide appropriate living conditions, as envisaged in the legal framework in force and the General Regulation of Prisons. 9. Taking measures in order to open a grocery store inside the institution, where patients may buy basic food items. 10. Taking measures to provide common premises for religious, cultural and sports events delivered by the psycho-social care sector. 11. Taking measures to recruit additional medium-level medical staff, considering the particular category of persons treated in this Institution. 12. Taking measures for the establishment of a reserve fund for tumour-sick patients, whose treatment requires costly medications. 13. Taking measures to recruit an additional dentist to ensure adequate dental service. 14. Taking measures to recruit additional police staff, so that patients are escorted to other hospital centres within QSUT without infringing security conditions. Recommendation to the Minister of Justice, Minister of Internal Affairs, General Prosecutor, General Director of Prisons, and General Director of State Police on the immediate transfer of the arrested and convicted persons to relevant sectors of IECDs according to the applicable legal and sub-legal acts. Dated 03.09.2015 The Ombudsman, in the role of the National Mechanism for Prevention of Torture, during inspections conducted in Penitentiary Institutions in place and in security premises of State Police organs, observed that: 1. In several IECDs anticipated as pre-trial detention institutions and in the pre-trial detention sections of several other IECDs, are held persons who had been convicted with final court decisions from respective courts. 2. In several cases, these convicted persons have been settled in the same rooms with pretrial detainees, and as a consequence the perform all the activities together, contrary to the provisions of Law no. 8328 dated 16.04.1998 “On the rights and treatment of prisoners”, as amended. 3. Pre-trial detainees are held and treated in some of the security premises of state police authorities, against whom the respective courts have given decisions for the assignment 50