0031-0330 irl.qxd 150 2.3.2009 14:20 Page 150 THIRD GENEVA CONVENTION OF 1949 – ANNEX I B. ACCOMMODATION IN NEUTRAL COUNTRIES The following shall be eligible for accommodation in a neutral country: 1) All wounded prisoners of war who are not likely to recover in captivity, but who might be cured or whose condition might be considerably improved by accommodation in a neutral country. 2) Prisoners of war suffering from any form of tuberculosis, of whatever organ, and whose treatment in a neutral country would be likely to lead to recovery or at least to considerable improvement, with the exception of primary tuberculosis cured before captivity. 3) Prisoners of war suffering from affections requiring treatment of the respiratory, circulatory, digestive, nervous, sensory, genito-urinary, cutaneous, locomotive organs, etc., if such treatment would clearly have better results in a neutral country than in captivity. 4) Prisoners of war who have undergone a nephrectomy in captivity for a nontubercular renal affection; cases of osteomyelitis, on the way to recovery or latent; diabetes mellitus not requiring insulin treatment; etc. 5) Prisoners of war suffering from war or captivity neuroses. Cases of captivity neurosis which are not cured after three months of accommodation in a neutral country, or which after that length of time are not clearly on the way to complete cure, shall be repatriated. 6) All prisoners of war suffering from chronic intoxication (gases, metals, alkaloids, etc.), for whom the prospects of cure in a neutral country are especially favourable. 7) All women prisoners of war who are pregnant or mothers with infants and small children. The following cases shall not be eligible for accommodation in a neutral country: 1) All duly verified chronic psychoses. 2) All organic or functional nervous affections considered to be incurable. 3) All contagious diseases during the period in which they are transmissible, with the exception of tuberculosis. II. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS 1) The conditions given shall, in a general way, be interpreted and applied in as broad a spirit as possible. Neuropathic and psychopathic conditions caused by war or captivity, as well as cases of tuberculosis in all stages, shall above all benefit by such liberal interpretation. Prisoners of war who have sustained several wounds, none