TORTURE AND ILL-TREATMENT OF CHILDREN IN UKRAINE

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