At the time of monitoring, the Institution had the following medical equipment: one 3-channel ECG (electrocardiograph), one UHF device, one electric stimulator “myorhythm”, five glucometers, 36 blood pressure measuring devices with stethoscopes, three 3-channel electrocardiographs, one echoscopy device, one colonoscopy device, one gastroscopy device, one bronchoscopy device, one cardiac monitor, five electric knives, three defibrillators, five artificial breathing machines, three electric saws, one compressor, two surgery table, 2 surgery lights, two electric surgery machines, forty-five wheelchairs and forty-two adjustable crutches. In the psychiatric ward, there is an isolation room with a special bed with fastening belts. There is a water closet inside the room. If a patient refuses to take medications and food and disobeys the clinic rules, the relevant minutes are drawn up. On the first day of our visit, only 5 cells could be monitored electronically but, based on the Penitentiary Department’s decision, surveillance cameras were in the process of getting installed in all of the rooms of the psychiatric ward. 2.5.2.2.  TB TREATMENT AND REHABILITATION CENTER The Center’s capacity is 698 prisoners. At the time of the Special Preventive Group’s visit, there were 168 prisoners at the institution. According to the institution’s director, one convicted prisoner had been transferred to “Academician B. Naneishvili National Center of Mental Health”. Prisoners accommodated in the institution for treatment purposes are placed mostly in the first and second buildings. The first building houses prisoners infected with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis MGB(+). The building has 18 rooms where there were 8 prisoners by 11-12 December 2014. The other building is a four-story building. On the first floor, there are offices for a chief doctor and a statistician as well as a drug storage and a laboratory. On the third and fourth floors, prisoners infected with sensitive and resistant forms of tuberculosis are accommodated in various wings of the building. One part of the third floor has rooms for newly admitted prisoners who are undergoing initial tests. TB Treatment and Rehabilitation Center offers X-ray, echoscopy and lab tests. They have a dentist’s room, a small manipulations room and a sterilization room. 2.5.2.3.  MEDICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AT PENITENTIARY INSTITUTIONS Healthcare services in penitentiary institutions are provided by 37 primary healthcare teams. According to information received from the Medical Department of the Ministry of Corrections, each primary healthcare team is equipped with a defibrillator, a pair of scales, a stadiometer, a cardiograph, a glucometer, a blood pressure measurement device and an X-ray viewer. Dental rooms and small manipulation rooms are operational in the institutions. NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM OF GEORGIA 87

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