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The health-care service shall prepare and maintain accurate, up-to date and confidential individual medical files on all prisoners, and all prisoners should be granted access to their files upon request. The services of a qualified dentist shall be available to every prisoner.'

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The health-care service shall consist of an interdisciplinary team with sufficient qualified personnel acting in full clinical independence and shall encompass sufficient expertise in psychology and psychiatry. Every prison shall have in place a health-care service tasked with evaluating, promoting, protecting and improving the physical and mental health of prisoners, paying particular attention to prisoners with special health-care needs or with health issues that hamper their rehabilitation.

Health-care services should be organized in close relationship to the general public health administration and in a way that ensures continuity of treatment and care, including for HIV, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, as well as for drug dependence.' Prisoners should enjoy the same standards of health care that are available in the community, and should have access to necessary health-care services free of charge without discrimination on the grounds of their legal status. The provision of health care for prisoners is a State responsibility. You are here: Home / News Shimo La Tewa Prison, Kenya