• To take all necessary measures to ensure that the practice of opening envelopes containing responses to confidential complaints before handing to the recipient prisoners; • To take all necessary measures to ensure that the responses in closed envelopes are handed to the recipient prisoners confidentially so that the establishment’s administration could not read their contents; • To ensure drafting of amendment to the Imprisonment Code with the effect of determining reasonable terms for the consideration by the Medical Department of the Ministry of Corrections of Georgia of applications/complaints of medical nature; to ensure its submission to the Government of Georgia for its initiation before the Parliament of Georgia; and • To ensure drafting of amendment to the Imprisonment Code with the effect of determining reasonable terms for the consideration of applications/complaints by the Inspectorate General of the Ministry of Corrections of Georgia; to ensure its submission to the Government of Georgia for its initiation before the Parliament of Georgia. PROPOSALS TO THE PARLIAMENT OF GEORGIA: • To amend the Imprisonment Code to the effect of determining reasonable terms for the consideration of applications/complaints of medical nature by the Medical Department of the Ministry of Corrections of Georgia; and • To amend the Imprisonment Code to the effect of determining reasonable terms for the consideration of applications/complaints by the Inspectorate General of the Ministry of Corrections of Georgia. 3.9. PENITENTIARY HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM The right to health is an inclusive right259 extending not only to timely and appropriate health care but also to the underlying determinants of health, such as access to safe and potable water and adequate sanitation, adequate supply of safe food and nutrition, housing, healthy occupational and environmental conditions, access to health-related education and information, and gender equality. The right to health also includes the right to be free from interference, such as the right to be free from non-consensual medical treatment and experimentation, torture, or other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment. In includes the right to a system of health protection that provides equality of opportunity for people to enjoy the highest attainable level of health, appropriate treatment for prevalent diseases, illnesses; ensures 259 Right to Health, Fact Sheet No. 31, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and World Health Organization, available at: http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/Factsheet31.pdf [Last visited on 17.03.2017]. NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM (NPM), 2016 125

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