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ICRC workshop focuses on prisoner health
in Iraqi Kurdistan region
23.4.2008
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April 23, 2008
Erbil-Hewler, Kurdistan region 'Iraq, (ICRC),
-- Prisoner health and managing the spread of
disease in detention facilities will be the focus of
a workshop hosted by the International Committee of
the Red Cross (ICRC) in Erbil this week.
The five-day event, which starts on 20 April, will
be attended by 70 health professionals and officials
working mainly in places of detention. It aims to
promote the proper management of medical care and
basic health standards in prisons in Kurdistan
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“Diseases can spread more easily within prison walls
than outside, because of the closed conditions and
overcrowding,” says Dr Jose Bastos Amigo,www.ekurd.net
an ICRC doctor who
visits places of detention in Iraq. “Prisoners have
the same right to proper medical care as everyone
else and should be given equal access to early
diagnosis, adequate treatment and sustained
follow-up care – as much for their own benefit as
for that of others.”
The workshop represents a further step in the ICRC’s
efforts to support prison authorities in fulfilling
their obligations under international humanitarian
law by ensuring that detainees’ basic needs,
including health care, are met. ICRC experts in the
fields of health and detainee welfare from Geneva
and Amman will be conducting the workshop.
“These types of events enable us to share useful
tools and techniques with medical personnel working
in prisons and with public health authorities. They
also give everyone a chance to exchange information
and learn from the experiences of others,” says
Marco Jaminki, head of the ICRC office in Kurdistan
Region.
The ICRC regularly visits persons detained by the
Asayish (the security forces of Kurdistan Region)
and by the Kurdistan Region Ministries of the
Interior and of Labour and Social Welfare to assess
the conditions of detention and the treatment of
detainees. The ICRC also visits places of detention
run by the Multi-National Force in Iraq and the
Iraqi Ministry of Justice.
For further information, please contact:
Hicham Hassan, ICRC Iraq, tel: +962 777 399 614 or
+962 6 552 39 94
Dorothea Krimitsas, ICRC Geneva, tel: +41 22 730 25
90 or +41 79 251 93 18
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