• To ensure that the patients suffering from acute psychosis are treated in a psychiatric establishment and that outpatient services are implemented;
• To take all necessary measure to ensure that the prisoners suffering from mental health problems are not placed in a solitary confinement cell;
• To ensure implementation of opioid dependence treatment through replacement maintenance therapy;
• To ensure that assessment of the effectiveness of the work done within the
suicide prevention programme to identify shortcomings and make necessary
changes for the eradication of these problems; and
• To ensure the creation of psycho-social rehabilitation services tailored to the
needs of the prisoners suffering from mental health problems and substance
abuse.
PROPOSAL TO THE CHIEF PROSECUTOR OF GEORGIA:
• To ensure independent and impartial investigation of all incidents of suicide.
3.9.7. MANAGING AND PREVENTING HIGHLY DANGEROUS CONTAGIOUS DISEASES
According to the data received from the Ministry of Corrections of Georgia, in 2016, tuberculosis screening tests were performed 57,658 times (in 2015, 58,208 times). The
tests revealed 45 new and 45 repeated cases of tuberculosis.
By December 2016, 41 prisoners (in 2015, 38 prisoners) were infected with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis. 9 incidents of discontinued treatment have been revealed (in 2015,
16 incidents). In the same year, 8 patients resumed discontinued treatment. The fact that,
in 2015, 156 patients were referred to a public sector clinic for examination/treatment
of related diseases is positively assessed. There are no significant changes in this regard,
compared to 2015.328
In the Parliamentary Report of 2015, the Public Defender recommended to the Minister
of Corrections of Georgia to eradicate problems related to activities aimed at controlling
infections and treatment of related diseases in establishment no. 19. According to the
response received from the Ministry of Corrections, since 2016, the National Centre for
Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases has continuously supplied establishment no. 19 with respirators (for everyone) and sterile gloves (only for the personnel in direct contact with the
patients involved in the course of treatment with new medications). Disposable masks
and gloves are provided by the Ministry.
In 2015, the Public Defender recommended to the Minister of Corrections to ensure that
all prisoners suffering from tuberculosis were transferred to the tuberculosis treatment
328 This number amounted to 152.
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