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.
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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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