- 61 186. The delegation was also told that someone placed in an isolation cell would be seen every 20 minutes by a prison officer; however, once again there was no reliable means of verifying this (a register existed for the recording of visits to the isolation cells; however, staff stated it was filled in once at the end of a given day, for the whole of that day). Similarly, although health-care staff stated that they would visit a prisoner held in isolation several times a day in order to check on his state of health, no health chart attesting to such visits could be produced. 187. It also transpired from the delegation's discussions with staff that decisions on the transfer of a prisoner to an isolation cell and the provision of medication would often be taken by unqualified health-care staff without prior consultation of a doctor, and that up to two days might pass before such a prisoner was seen by a doctor. 188. In brief, the existing arrangements for dealing with mentally disturbed and violent prisoners at the Unit are totally unsatisfactory and, more specifically, could well exacerbate rather than relieve such a prisoner's mental state. They involve a clear risk of ill-treatment, albeit as a result of inadequate staff resources and/or lack of training rather than malevolence. iv. action proposed 189. The CPT recommends: - that the operation of the Psychiatric Unit at Korydallos be the subject of a full review. The purpose of this review should be to ascertain whether it is feasible in the short term to upgrade the Unit into a fully-fledged psychiatric hospital facility. In the event of the review providing a negative reply, arrangements should be made for the Unit to cease to operate as a psychiatric facility and for the transfer of mentally ill prisoners to another, properly equipped, psychiatric institution; - that the "intensive care unit" at the Psychiatric Unit be taken out of service forthwith;