Review of the standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners 2013, para. 50
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- The State must provide adequate medical care, which is a minimum and indispensable material requirement for ensuring the humane treatment of persons in its custody. The carrying out of a prompt, independent and consensual medical examination upon a person's admission to a place of detention and after every transfer between facilities, and thereafter on a routine basis, constitutes one of the basic safeguards against ill-treatment (see Human Rights Council resolution 10/24, paras. 4 and 9, and A/52/40 (vol. I), para. 109). Among the main challenges in the provision of medical care are the lack of appropriate and sufficient medical personnel; inadequate medicine supplies and equipment; and a lack of capacity and delays in authorizing transfers to hospitals. The Special Rapporteur notes that loss of life or a deterioration in an inmate's well-being occurs because of a lack of or unreasonable delays in the provision of urgent medical care, and that these omissions on the part of the authorities can amount to ill-treatment and even torture.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Health
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 50
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