IV.1. Prison Hospital Wards 211. Prison Hospital Wards (abbreviated as UCH in Spanish) are facilities in hospitals of the public health network that accommodate inmates who require hospital treatment. Even though the hospital buildings are subject to the author­ ity of the corresponding Ministry of the Regional Autonomous Community, secure hospitals units are under the authority of the SGIP and the custody of hos­ pitalized inmates corresponds exclusively to the National Police Force (abbreviated as CNP in Spanish). They are under the 212. In 2012 the Prison Hospital Ward of the University General Hospital Grego­ rio Marañón of Madrid was inspected. The corresponding authorities were in­ formed in advance of the inspection visit, bearing in mind it was going to include a delegation from the Armenian Ombudsman Institution as participant in the TAIEX (JHA IND/STUD 50469) project organized by the European Commission. In 2012 the Prison Hospital 213. The Prison Hospital Ward of the University General Hospital Gregorio Marañón has twelve rooms, four of which are for individual use and the others are for double occupancy, with a total of 18 beds. The rooms have the same fea­ tures as any others in the hospital, with the logical exception of elements needed to guarantee custody and prevent inmates from escaping. Likewise, there are three with special characteristics: one is for solitary confinement, and the other two are used for hospitalized inmates who might be carrying narcotics inside their bodies. The beds, mattresses and linen used by the inmates are the same as the ones used for other hospitalized patients. It has 12 rooms, of which 214. The solitary confinement room had two doors. The inside door, shown in the picture below, opens inwards, which was the cause of some security incidents in the past, including one in which an inmate blocked the door with a bed, im­ peding the entrance of the police agents. This deficiency should be corrected to avoid further incidents of this type. The deficiencies of the authority of the SGIP Ward of the University General Hospital Gregorio Marañón in Madrid was inspected four are single and the rest double. It has a total of 18 beds available solitary confinement room must be corrected Door of the solitary confinement room opening Photograph 60 inwards THE OMBUDSMAN OF SPAIN 153