Recommendations (A/HRC/16/52/Add.4) aa. Perform medical and psychiatric assessments upon detention, so that those suffering from a disability receive medical treatment in line with international minimum standards. Situation during visit (See: A/HRC/16/52/Add.4) often refrain from filing a claim despite a serious fear of being returned to their country of origin. Many aliens were afraid to file an asylum claim in gear of being detained longer as a consequence or being deprived of seeking asylum in another EU member State. In most detention facilities visited, psychiatric evaluations were not performed on a routine basis. Despite a Ministerial Decision (164484/2009 (GG B 52/2010)) that grants conditional release of detainees suffering from certain illnesses and disabilities, there were several detainees with a condition. Information received in the reporting period Government: The prison administrations observe the procedures stipulated by the provisions of articles 23 and 24 of the Correctional Code in relation to medical examination and interview of new prisoners. They are normally examined by physicians within one day of their admission to prisons and the relevant information is kept in their personal file. For any psychiatric incident that the facility‘s doctor considers that it should be treated by a doctor outside the prison, the detainee is transferred to the Psychiatric Facility of Korydallos Complex of Prisons Establishments and if it is considered as necessary, an order for transfer to a Psychiatric Hospital is issued immediately. 99 A/HRC/19/61/Add.3 The Ministerial Decision 164484/2009 (GG B 52/2010), it should be noted that the Decision regulates the process of granting of immediate release for the special groups of detainees defined by the provisions of the Article 110A of the Penal Code (HIV positive, or chronic renal failure, or resistant tuberculosis, or cancer in the last stage).

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