92 • MONITORING OF CUSTODIAL SETTINGS IN UKRAINE: low level of institutional staff’s familiarity with the requirements of the international instruments on human rights or the standards as to treatment of prisoners; assistance to prisoners.     Regarding certain groups of prisoners the following violations were revealed: Patients with tuberculosis: • lack of in-service and advanced training for institutional health care personnel; • handling of medical documentation in ways incompatible with the requirements of the current legislation; • inappropriate implementation of joint orders of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine and Ministry of Health Care of Ukraine as to provision of medical • at Kyiv remand prison the conditions for TB patients, especially those with the contagious form, are unsatisfactory: for lack of ventilation system the rooms are stuffy, smelly, humid and filled with cigarette smoke, which is not conducive to recovery. Stationary UV germicidal lamps are not available. The patients are not provided with disposable spitting cups. • in Olshany penitentiary (No. 53) the isolation ward for prisoners suffering from contagious tuberculosis is in unsuitable premises (inadequate ventilation system, absence of UV lamps); • in Seleznivka penitentiary (No. 143) the health care post established instead of a medical unit has no X-ray room;

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