TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN UKRAINE

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Torture and ill-treatment of children in UkraineThe medical units do not contain paediatricians.In the hospital section of medical units of SIZO and educational coloniesthere are wards for minors allowing 5 square metres per person.According to information provided by the Health Ministry, there are noseparate normative legal acts of the Health Ministry regarding the procedure forproviding individuals, including minors in confinement with medical care; organizationand carrying out of sanitary supervision; use of medical and sanitary-prophylactichealth establishments; and engaging their personnel.Provision of medicines and items of a medical nature to SIZO, penal institutions,educational colonies for minors which according to legislation arepublicly funded, is carried out on a centralized basis from the staff of the departmentwhich provides for the State Penitentiary Service’s activities andin decentralized manner through the procurement of medical property independently.The centralized need is determined in accordance with applicationsfrom the territorial bodies of the State Penitentiary Service which ismade up depending on the number of illnesses; as per the classification ofillnesses and used medication over the last year.Procurement of medication is carried out by the State Penitentiary Serviceas per the Law from 01.06.2010 No. 2289-VI On carrying out public procurement.In accordance with the agreements reached, payment for the medicinesprovided is carried out via the State Treasury. Funding for purchase of medicationnot on the list of medication purchased centrally or where the demandis not great is allocated by territorial departments of the State PenitentiaryService. They in their turn distribute them directly between SIZO, penal institutionsand educational colonies as per their estimates for the year.According to State Penitentiary Service information, minors being heldin SIZO or educational colonies are fully supplied with medication to ensurenecessary medical care.There are no separate normative documents regulating the actions of institutionpersonnel in the case of physical, sexual or psychological violencewith respect to minors.124Interior MinistryProcedure for medical and sanitary-epidemiological provisions in ITT isset out in Section 9 of the ITT Internal Regulations.
Section 2Administrative standards and proceduresSince the Interior Ministry did not provide data about the standard staffingschedule for ITT and officials’ instructions (functional duties) of its personnel,due to regulation of those issues not assigned for public view throughorders making it for official use only, it is possible only on the basis of indirectinformation to draw conclusions as to whether the makeup of ITT personnelincludes a medical worker.According to the ITT Internal Regulations, before being brought to the ITT,a primary medical examination is carried out in healthcare establishments tocheck for injuries or any need for emergency medical care. In being placed inan ITT, a person is examined by an ITT medical assistant. If there is no such position,they are questioned by the person responsible for the detainees’ presencethere (duty officer). It follows that the staffing of an ITT does not have toinclude a medical assistant.Police officers are supposed to provide first aid where needed to detaineesand people held in custody. Emergency medical assistance to people indetention is provided by ambulance brigades of medical-prophylactic institutionsof the local healthcare bodies where called out by the duty officer for theITT or police station. If a medical worker from the ambulance and emergencymedical care brigade decides that the detainee or person held in custodyneeds hospital care, he or she is sent under guard to the appropriate medicalprophylacticestablishment of the local healthcare bodies.It is not permitted to hold people suffering from psychological or infectiousillnesses in ITT, nor people showing signs of acute medical conditions ifthere are the relevant medical documents.There are supposed to be universal (medical) first aid kits with one foreach cell. Medication prescribed by medical workers from the ambulance andemergency medical care brigade for detainees and people held in custodyare held by the duty ITT officer and are taken by the person only in the dutyofficer’s presence.Procedure for providing medical assistance to children held in penal institutionsis set out in the Rules 62 .In each reception-distribution unit a medical point is created with itswork being according to a plan agreed with the local health care body andapproved by the head of the reception-distribution unit. This plan envisages62 Rules for medical care of minors being held in reception-distribution units for minors(adopted by Interior Ministry Order No. 384 from 13.06.1996).125
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