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Medical services
Visits to pre-trial detention
center in 2018 revealed a
significant number of medical
service violations. These
include annual comments
on the lack of medical staff
in the institution, insufficient
provision
with
medical
preparations,
complaints
about the lack of medical
support from narrow medical
specialists, and ignoring the
call for medical staff, lack of
control over the diseases
requiring
continuous
treatment - diabetes, HIV,
tuberculosis, the poor state
of the furniture in the medical
wards.
All the above is confirmed
by the following facts
revealed during the visits to
pre-trial detention center in
2018.
When
visiting
the
establishment
EC-166/1
of the Department of the
penitentiary system in Astana
according to the verbal
complaint received from A.
(cell No.317), the institution
does not have a pediatrician
and does not provide the
necessary
vitamin
and
medicine complex for a
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newborn child who was born
on 10.25.2017. According
to the verbal complaint
received from M. (cell
No.413), who was diagnosed
with a fracture of the first
lumbar vertebra, admitted on
January 05, 2018, the medical
staff do not always respond
promptly to a request for the
painkillers. So, an anesthetic
injection can be delivered not
according to the schedule,
but at any time (after 9.00
o’clock). Thus, suffering from
severe pain, M. cannot move
and, accordingly, does not
attend planned walks. After
suffering for some time
from an intolerable pain,
M. was forced to knock on
the cell door so that the
administration would pay
attention to him. After that,
the medical officer began to
make injections 2 times a day.
On February 8, 2018, he had
a convulsive seizure and an
ambulance was immediately
called.
According to the verbal
complaint received from
I. (cell No.614), he wrote a
request to the medical ward,
but the medical officer did
not examine him. According
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