staff of the prison and to other inmates.173 Save for urgent cases, any medical examination and consultation should be performed in privacy, in observance of the confidentiality principle, in a doctor’s office.174 The principle of confidentiality is breached also by Article 24.2 of the Georgian Imprisonment Code,175 according to which a medical account of a prisoner’s mandatory medical examination carried out on admission must be kept in the prisoner’s personal (non-medical) file. According to the Order N 198/N of the Minister of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia, dated 7 July 2002, on the „Rules of storage of medical records by medical institutions“, all completed medical files shall be saved in the archives of the medical institution. The monitoring of the establishment N2 undertaken by the regulatory unit of the Medical Department in July 2012 revealed that there is a medical archive in the institution, however, in the archive room the documents are placed on the so called “prison beds”; medical records are not compiled or numbered in accordance with relevant rules, are not boxed, there’s no information on the total number of files, etc., however they are piled in the alphabetic order; the room is does not meet the requirements set for archives, requisite temperature is not protected and there’s no humidity control, not enough shelves, except for archived documents, there are various non-archive items in the room (wheelchairs, computers, primary care journals, crutches, etc.). According to the Chief Doctor, a majority of documents archived (compressed until 2012) is stored in the special unit (packed in the prisoners personal affairs). To date the archive is unchecked, and it is unknown how many medical files are stored. In addition, there’s no responsible for archives allocated in the medical unit of the establishment N2. The archive does not function either at the establishment N3. Part of the Medical histories are stored in the primary health care room closet, with the active medical files (archived files are stored at the two lower shelves). None of them are described, numbered, in alphabetical order, etc., there’s no information on the number of the medical files stored, etc. the other (larger) part of archived medical files are stored in the special unit for the room provided for documentation, where none of the requirements applicable to archives are met (not kept in relevant temperature and humidity, not enough shelves, room polluted, non-archive material, etc.). Medical documentation is boxed in 6 large boxes and placed in different parts of the room. The establishment N14 has the similar problem. 173 Outtakes from the general report of the CPT(CPT/Inf (93)12), para.51. 174 ibid., paragraph 35. 175 ibid., paragraphs 50-51. 112 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM (NPM), 2015