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40.04. There are effective procedures for identifying personal factors, including clinical depression, that may put individual detainees at risk of hunger strike.

40. Hunger Strikes E. Health Services

40.05. There are effective procedures for identifying, anticipating, preparing for and monitoring conditions or high-risk events that may provide triggers for hunger strike.

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40.06. There is a protocol for clinical management and care of detainees who refuse food and/or fluids and for the recovery and psychological care of those who have ceased hunger strike.

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40.07. Physicians are familiar with international guidelines on the ethics of clinical management of hunger strikers and act accordingly.

40. Hunger Strikes E. Health Services

40.08. The individual’s intentions and mental competence to refuse nourishment are medically assessed early.

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40.09. Separation or isolation, in any form, are not used as a method for non-clinical management of hunger strikers.

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40.10. Hunger strikers are not given medical treatment against their will, including rehydration and artificial feeding.

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40.11. The right to treatment is unconditional, and the right to refuse some forms of treatment and not others is respected.

40. Hunger Strikes E. Health Services

40.12. Forcible feeding is prohibited.

40. Hunger Strikes E. Health Services

40.13. Clinical safeguards include confirmation of a detainee’s capacity to understand the consequences of his/her voluntary refusal of nourishment by at least one other independent physician.

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40.14. Physicians have complete clinical independence in deciding upon the care of a person on hunger strike.

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40.15. Where a child begins a hunger strike, an early assessment is made of the child’s mental competence to refuse nourishment, and the views of the child are given due weight in accordance with the age and maturity of the child.

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40.16. Physicians unable for reasons of conscience to abide by a hunger striker’s refusal of treatment or artificial feeding make early referrals to physicians willing to do so.

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40.17. There is a care policy that enables a detainee on hunger strike to die with dignity.

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40.18. There is a policy of actively and, as far as possible, alleviating the aspects of detention likely to trigger hunger strikes.

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40.19. Physicians providing clinical care in places of detention have access to professional support and training on professional and ethical standards of treatment, and ready access to debriefing and counselling services.

40. Hunger Strikes E. Health Services

41.01. If women are detained, an onsite medical officer has specialist knowledge and experience in women’s health issues and there is pre-natal and post-natal care and treatment readily available.

41. Women and Babies E. Health Services

41.02. If pregnant women are detained, their babies are, as far as practicable, born in a hospital outside the place of detention. If a baby is born in detention, this is not recorded on the child’s birth certificate.

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41.03. If babies and their mothers are detained, an onsite medical officer has specialist knowledge and experience in paediatrics and maternal and child health care.

41. Women and Babies E. Health Services

41.04. Special accommodation is available for all necessary pre-natal and post-natal care and treatment.

41. Women and Babies E. Health Services