E/CN.4/2005/62/Add.2 page 24 of the penal correction system, the production of home grown agricultural produce in such institutions and the means of processing it are increasing; this helps to improve the quality and variety of food and promote a balanced diet. 109. Recommendation (i) stated: Medical facilities and medicines should be sufficient to meet the needs of inmates, even after the present situation (in which the State effectively subjects inmates to disease by placing them in health-damaging conditions) has been remedied. 110. The Government reported that in institutions of the penal correction system, there are currently some 500,000 inmates suffering from various diseases, including socially significant diseases: 63,000 inmates suffer from active forms of tuberculosis, 35,000 are infected with HIV, and 70,000 are chronic alcoholics. More than 120,000 convicted persons are in need of psychiatric treatment. Institutions of the penal correction system have 133 hospitals of various types, 59 medical correctional institutions for persons with tuberculosis and 11 for drug addicts. The provision of correctional institutions and remand centres with the necessary medical equipment and expendable medical supplies has been brought up to established norms; this makes it possible to provide suspects, accused persons and convicted persons with sufficient medical care. Every year, the medical technology and equipment of the penal correction system is renewed and modernized. The penal correction system pays special attention to combating socially dangerous diseases. The federal special programmes being carried out in the penal correction system, namely “Prevention and treatment of diseases of a social nature (2002-2006) and “Comprehensive measures to prevent drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking for the period 2002-2004”, have made it possible to achieve continuity in the medical diagnostic process and to reduce the incidence of tuberculosis and the number of drug addicts. Over the past three years, the capacity of tuberculosis hospitals for convicted persons increased by 3,500 places, four specialized treatment centres with capacity for 3,000 patients have been opened, and bacteriological laboratories are being established in nine constituent entities of the Russian Federation. Although every year 30,000 tuberculosis patients enter institutions of the penal correction system, the number of patients with active forms of tuberculosis has decreased over the past three years from 100,000 to 63,000 (there has been a twofold decrease in the incidence of tuberculosis as compared with 1999, and there has been a fourfold decrease in the mortality rate). As a result of the measures that have been taken, the overall incidence of disease in institutions has decreased by 17 per cent, and the mortality rate by 24 per cent. 111. Recommendation (j) stated: The United Nations Programme of Advisory Services and Technical Assistance in respect of the Russian Federation should be intensified in the following areas: 112. (i) Training of law enforcement, prosecutorial, judicial and penitentiary officials in international standards in the administration of justice (pre-trial, trial and post-trial phases), in cooperation, as necessary, with other organizations, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross and academic institutions; 113. The Government reported that the system of training personnel for work in bodies and institutions of the penal correction system of the Ministry of Justice is being reformed. The penal correction system of the Ministry of Justice has created a system of educational institutions that includes five higher educational establishments with seven branches, three specialized secondary