• Recommendation No. R (98) 7 of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers to member states concerning the ethical and organizational aspects of health care in prison (Strasbourg, 20 April 1998); • Consensus Statement on Mental Health Promotion in Prisons, WHO Regional Office for Europe Health in Prisons Project (The Hague, Netherlands, 18–21 November 1998) • The UN international principles of medical ethics (1982) • The World Medical Association: Declaration of Tokyo (1975), Declaration of Hamburg (1997), Geneva Declaration (1948), Declaration of Malta (1991, 2006), Helsinki Resolution (2003, 2007); • A Guide to International Instruments and Mechanisms against Torture, International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) (as of 4 July 2007) • Health in Prisons, A WHO guide to the essentials in prison health; • The Madrid recommendation: health protection in prisons as an essential part of public health (WHO, 2010). • Reforms implemented in the penitentiary healthcare system and current challenges are discussed below in the relevant chapters. 2.5.1. FUNDING OF THE GEORGIAN PRISON HEALTHCARE; ORGANIZATIONAL ASPECTS; IMPLEMENTED REFORMS According to the information received from the Ministry of Corrections, the Ministry’s Medical Department has three separate units in order to organise the work related to basic healthcare, special services and healthcare regulation: unit for primary healthcare and outpatient services, unit for specialized medical services, and the unit of regulation of the medical activity regulation. It is noteworthy that by the Order N53 of the Minister of 25 June new regulations of the medical department were established. The new regulation defined and brought under the regulatory framework the activities of the territorial units of the medical department: the medical units of the penitentiary establishments, first-aid points of the pre-trial detention facility, tuberculosis treatment and rehabilitation centre, and the medical prisons. Penitentiary Healthcare Standard, developed with participation of Council of Europe experts and adopted by Order N31 of the Minister of Corrections on “ Standards of med90 NATIONAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM (NPM), 2015