(c) Religious facilities Inmates are allowed to practice their religions. In all the prisons visited, there are mosques for Muslims and churches for Orthodox Christians. In the Addis Ababa prison there are two well constructed buildings for Muslims and Orthodox Christians. There is however, no building for Protestants. Clergymen come from outside the prison to preach on specific days. On other days, lay preachers from amongst prisoners themselves are allowed to preach. 3) Health and Hygiene (a) Medical care In terms of article 27 of Proclamation No. 365 of 2003, the government is to take care of the welfare and health of the prisoners. Even though this is a Proclamation that applies to federal prisons, it is a practice in both domestic and international law. All the detention centers, except the police stations have clinics that offer first aid treatment to prisoners. Medical problems that cannot be handled by the clinics are referred to nearby hospitals. In the Addis Ababa Prison, there is a clinic in each of the six zones of the prison and another bigger clinic for more serious problems. Complaints that cannot be handled by the latter are referred to the hospital. Apart from the Addis Ababa Prison, all the other prisons have very few medical facilities. None of the regional prisons visited has an equipped laboratory. There are very few medicines in the dispensaries and none has a resident doctor or even a visiting doctor. In the Arba Minch Prison, there is a quota of 8 inmates that can be sent to hospital each day. This means if this number is attained, no other prisoner can be taken to hospital. The authorities argue that this quota has been imposed on them by the hospital authorities as there is also a quota on the number of patients each doctor can attend to, and secondly, that the government does not provide the hospital with a separate budget for the treatment of prisoners. Apart from the Addis Ababa prison, all the other prisons are poorly staffed in the health sector. In the Awasa prison, there is only one non-resident nurse, in the Arba Minch prison, there is one resident nurse. The Adama prison has a health assistant and a sanitation officer. Generally, the most common diseases in the prisons are TB and HIV/AIDS. However, there are other diseases peculiar in specific regions. For example, in the Harari Region, the most common disease is malaria, in the Oromia Region, it was TB. Apart from sensitisation, especially on HIV/AIDS, there is no risk prevention programme in any of the prisons. However, it must be noted that prisoners with contagious diseases such as TB are separated from the others. 28 Report of the Mission of the Special Rapporteur on Prisons to Ethiopia 15 – 29 March 2004