The building occupied by medical and sanitary units on PDF No. 23 and PDF No. 24 are very old and require capital repair works. Minor renovation is also required in all the wards, doctors’ rooms, and treatment and dressing rooms. Outpatient units for receiving patients are available. Every PDF has three hospital-type wards and one isolation ward. Sphygmometers (tonometers for measuring blood pressure) are available, while any other equipment is missing. The MSU of PDF No. 25 has the following rooms: MSU chief’s office, staff room, dentist’s room, examination room, pharmaceutical room, registration desk, laboratories, reception and dressing room, pharmacy, examination room in the women’s section, two hospital-type wards for persons with somatic disorders and 12 rooms for persons with TB. Medical workers deliver 24-hour service on the basis of a duty scheme approved by the head of the institution. If there is a need an ambulance can be called to all pre-trial detention facilities. Based on the SSEP Order (Ref. No. 14 of 18 January 2012 “On delivering specialized assistance to convicts in SSEP institutions”) and according to the visiting schedule of doctors in the central hospital within Correctional Colony No. 47 in Bishkek City, specialized doctors travel to SSEP institutions located in Chuy province on a weekly basis to provide medical consultations and select those in need of hospitalization to be transferred to the central hospital under Correctional Colony No. 47. Upon admission to pre-trial detention facilities, all persons should pass a pre-testing consultation and a blood test for syphilis (Wassermann's test) and HIV, as well as an X-ray examination. As reported by the staff of medical and sanitary units, HIV tests are carried out only with the informed consent of detainees. Independent examination studies are carried out by MSUs (drug examination and forensic and psychiatric assessment) with the participation of staff members of the Republican Centre of Mental Health and Republican Narcological Centre under the Health Ministry of the Kyrgyz Republic. In case of detecting patients with signs of mental disorders, MSU doctors provide care and treatment until such patients are transferred to relevant medical institutions. Patients who are diagnosed with “chronic drug addiction” or “alcohol addition” in the course of narcological examination are transferred, on the basis of a court’s decision, to a narcological unit under the central hospital in Correctional Colony No. 47. Freedom of religion or belief In all pre-trial detention facilities detainees have the possibility to perform religious rites. In PDF No. 24 one of the cells was remodelled to serve as a prayer room for Muslims. During Friday prayers the management of the institution allows detainees to congregate in one room, not separating them into different categories (regular convicted prisoners, life sentenced prisoners, persons under investigation and defendants). 52