timely provision of their consultations by neurologists, gastroenterologists and psychiatrists. • With a view of ensuring timely provision of healthcare services, in determining a patient’s list number in the medical referrals electronic database, take into account the nature of the disease and dynamic of its development; incorporate this new principle in the Order N55 of the Minister of Corrections dated 10 April 2014 • Amend the Order of the Minister of Corrections No. 55 dated 10 April 2014 so that only the Chief of the Medical Department of the Ministry of Corrections, after consulting with the Chairman of the Penitentiary Department on issues of security of patient transfer, is authorized to make decisions on transferring patients to both penitentiary medical facilities and civilian hospitals. • Amend the Order of the Minister of Corrections No. 55 dated 10 April 2014 on “The procedure of transfer of the accused/convicts to the general hospitals and Tuberculosis Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre” and determine the reasonable time for the assessment of the referral registered in the unified electronic system by the Medical Department, in order to avoid undue delays in the treatment of the patients • Amend the Order of the Minister of Corrections No. 55 dated 10 April 2014 so that prisoners do not wait for their turn on the list if they had been incompletely examined in an outpatient clinic or had been examined but require additional examination shortly (a few days) after their visit to the clinic. • Take all necessary measures to enhance a mechanism for controlling the implementation of civilian healthcare standards in the penitentiary system; introduce an effective system for statistical data collection and analysis; pay more attention to the results of statistical analysis in designing the penitentiary healthcare action plan; effectively manage the procurement process and evaluate its cost-effectiveness. The quality of penitentiary healthcare services should be assessed using pre-determined and relevant indicators. TO THE MINISTER OF CORRECTIONS AND MINISTER OF LABOR, HEALTH AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS • Develop the plan of full integration of penitentiary healthcare into state general healthcare system via joint cooperation. NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM (NPM), 2015 109

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