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Instrument
Provision
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P39
All detained migrants must have free access to appropriate medical care, including mental health care.
22(2)
Sick prisoners who require specialist treatment shall be transferred to specialized institutions or to civil hospitals. Where hospital facilities are provided in an institution, their equipment, furnishings and pharmaceutical supplies shall be proper for the medical care and treatment of sick prisoners, and there shall be a staff of suitable trained officers.
82(2)
Prisoners who suffer from other mental diseases or abnormalities shall be observed and treated in specialized institutions under medical management.
1
Health personnel, particularly physicians, charged with the medical care of prisoners and detainees have a duty to provide them with protection of their physical and mental health and treatment of disease of the same quality and standard as is afforded to those who are not imprisoned or detained.