In order to determine the relevant facts, according to the Decision on the establishing of advisory body
to the Protector of Human Rights and Freedoms of Montenegro, an expert for court medicine was hired
as the NPM team member.
a) Ambulatory and medical check-ups of prisoners
Medical check-ups of prisoners are performed on Mondays and Fridays, based on applications from the
previous day. There are about 15 medical check-ups daily. In the ambulatory a specialist doctor of
general medicine is working, and at the same time he is the only doctor in the IEPS. In cases of
emergency the doctor is available to prisoners also in other days, during working hours.
Thus, patients who have health problems that require urgent medical examination, are examined
immediately in the ambulatory of the Prison for short sentences (the doctor comes into the ambulatory,
if it's not Monday and Friday; or patient is transferred to the other ambulatory where the doctor works
on that day), but only if the need for medical attention occurred during the working hours. In the case
the need for medical attention arose out of working hours of the doctor (during the afternoon, evening,
weekends, or holidays), a medical technician will perform an initial first aid, and then the patient will be
transported to the Emergency Department of the Clinical Centre of Montenegro, where the medical
examination and further possible diagnostic will be performed.
Ambulatory is equipped with a set for bandaging folding, apparatus for measuring blood pressure, bottle
with oxygen, anti-shock set, sterilizer, and other utensils. Outside working hours, the ambulance of the
prison for short sentences is locked.
Ambulatory of the Remand Prison in Podgorica is available to the prisoners of the Prison for short
sentences in case of need for radiological imaging, ultrasound examination, electrocardiogram,
determining glucose levels from capillary blood and inhalation. In that ambulatory there is apparatus for
laboratory analysis with the test strips, which is not in operation due to the high cost for individual
analysis, but laboratory analysis are made at the Health Centre in Danilovgrad or at the Clinical Centre
of Montenegro in Podgorica.
On the referral of the doctor of IECS, patients are sent to medical institutions outside the Prison, in the
Health Centre in Danilovgrad or Clinical Centre of Montenegro in Podgorica, according to the defined
indications. From the interview with the attending doctor in the Prison it can be concluded that the
realization of scheduled examinations at the Clinical Centre of Montenegro is not the best, mainly due
to lack of vehicles for transport of patients.
After examining data on monthly medical examinations of prisoners of the Prison for short sentences in
the year 2012, we learned that the average number of referrals for medical checks out of the IECS, was
about 4% (minimum 1.8%, maximum 6.4%). According to that statistics 4 to 5 prisoners monthly are
referred for medical checks.
b) Pharmacy
Pharmacy of the ambulance of the Prison for short sentences is supplied with a lot of various
antibiotics, analgoantipyretics, general internal medicines and psychiatric medicines. Medicines are in
original boxes in the closet, from which they are drawn and placed on partitioned pallet and carried in
the rooms to those who need therapy. This pallet consists of about 100 individual partitions, opened;
wherein in each individual partition there are approximately 50 tablets. Partitions are opened and
marked so that it is clear what medicine is in which partition.
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