(1) Under the authority of a sub-Director, the Sub-Department for
Penitentiary Health shall be responsible for:
- fighting against drug addiction;
- fighting against HIV/AIDS and opportunistic infections, in conjunction with
the Ministry of Health;
- drawing up the Penitentiary Administration health map;
- drawing up national statistics and patients’ card-index;
- contributing to planning needs of medical and paramedical staff;
- coordinating the activities of medical and paramedical staff;
- making systematic medical visits in prisons;
- monitoring health care to detainees and to staff;
- monitoring hygiene and disease prevention in prisons;
- monitoring health education in prisons;
- monitoring mother and child care in prisons;
- monitoring the implementation of the national public health policy in
prisons, in conjunction with the Ministry of Public Health.
(2) It shall comprise:
- the Service for Disease Control;
- the Service for Health Facilities, Health Care, Medical Equipment and Pharmacy.
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In force from 18 September 2012
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