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Newly admitted prisoners should undergo a detailed medical examination. Moreover, the CPT recommends that Polish authorities should make sure that documentation drawn up after a medical check-up
comprises the following information:
(i) description of comments made by the patient undergoing the check-up which are significant from the point of view of medical examination
(including own remarks on his/her health status and any allegations
concerning ill-treatment);
(ii) full, objective medical findings, resulting from the thorough examination;
(iii) doctor’s comments on information specified in items i) and ii)
indicating correspondence between presented allegations and objective medical findings.
Documentation should also include all results of additionally performed examinations, detailed results of specialist consultations,
description of the method of treating injuries as well as information
about all other procedures.
The results of medical examinations performed in case of very serious injuries should be presented on special forms dedicated to that
purpose and contain a body map for marking areas of serious injuries
which will be kept on file in prisoner’s medical records. What should
also be added to prisoner’s medical records are photographs, if they
were taken. Furthermore, each penitentiary establishment should
maintain a register of traumas for entering all types of injuries.
Furthermore, the Committee also recommends a review of existing
procedures to make sure that every time when recorded injuries correspond to prisoner’s reports on ill-treatment (also when no ill-treatment
was reported but injuries are indicative thereof) competent prosecutor
is systematically and immediately notified, regardless of whether the
prisoner wishes to make such a notification or not. Examination results
should also be available to the prisoner in question or his/her lawyer92.
CPT report from the visit to Poland in 2013, CPT/Inf (2014) 21, Art. 78.
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