Annual Report 2016 - Spain’s National Preventive Mechanism against Torture
§49 AR 2015
Body search
§191 AR 2014
Digital medical
records
§198 AR 2014
his/her body), which differs from the one drawn up by the General Deputy
Directorate of Prison Health, approved as an adequate document to guarantee
inmate rights. This is why a Recommendation has been forwarded to the SGIP in
order to instruct all CPs to use said form.
83. As informed by the inmates, it may be inferred that a robe or towel is not
always provided when conducting a full body search at CPs in Araba/Álava,
Dueñas (Palencia), León and Tenerife II.
84. We have ascertained that digital medical records are being progressively
implemented in SGIP CPs, although our Recommendation has not been
accepted, in the sense that this be compatible with existing medical records
health at public health services, insofar as competences in prison healthcare
services are not transferred to autonomous communities. In the absence of
collaboration agreements between the SGIP and autonomous communities, CP
doctors themselves need to contact public healthcare professionals to ensure
adequate coordination and therefore guarantee prisoner health.
At CPs in Catalonia and the Basque Country, given that CP healthcare services
are dependent on the autonomous healthcare administration, access is in fact
available to medical records held outside the prison, which clearly constitutes an
example of good practice.
Permanent
healthcare
§201 AR 2015
85. CPs in Alcalá de Guadaira (Seville), Ávila, Cuenca, Jaén and Ocaña II
(Toledo) do not have 24-hour on-site medical assistance, contrary to the
Ombudsman’s opinion.
Emergency
healthcare
86. The SGIP has still not accepted out 2015 Recommendation that an
emergency healthcare protocol be drawn up, guaranteeing a written record of
all healthcare requests and the procedure to follow. Nevertheless, this has been
insisted upon during our visits.
On-demand
healthcare
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87. Some prisons are considered to have insufficient on-demand healthcare.
As a result, either a request for assistance is inadequately made through
emergency channels or medical assistance is provided late in matters which,
albeit not serious, may affect inmate health and wellbeing. This is why, during
our visits to CPs in Araba/Álava, Dueñas (Palencia), Teixeiro (A Coruña),
Tenerife II and Zuera (Zaragoza) we reached the conclusion that more frequency
is necessary. On the other hand, the Men’s CP in Barcelona provides healthcare
on a daily basis in all wards, and CP Cuenca provides it three times a week,
despite the shortage of human resources in the healthcare sector and thanks to
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