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(5) Lack of call bells
The remark of the Committee for the setting of bells in every cell, in order to notify the
guard, is not considered necessary, as 24 hours a day there is a Border Guard in every corridor, who
is in direct visual and sound contact with the foreign detainees and he becomes directly receiver of
every demand. Still, it is quite probable that if bells are set, there will be an excessive use, with
negative consequences.
(6) Access to toilets
The foreign detainees’ access to the toilet, apart from the “internal egress to court-yard”, is
possible in parts, 24 hours a day or whenever they ask. The emiction in plastic bottles, mentioned in
the report, has happened in the past, and only in cases of psychologically disordered detainees. The
appropriate directions and commands have been given to the guard and since then no similar
incident has been reported. Evacuation in bags has never been reported.
(7) Medical examination
Patient detainees are examined four times a week by a panel of doctors of the nongovernmental organization “Medical Intervention”. The team of doctors consists of two general
practitioners, a cardiologist, a surgeon, a psychiatrist, four psychologists, a social worker, two
nurses and a coordinator, who have free access to the detention areas and possibility of direct
contact with foreign detainees.
For the best exercise of their mission, special areas have been foreseen, which have been
shaped up and equipped properly for their use as surgeries. In case of heavy conditions, after the
doctors’ opinion, they are transferred for examination-hospitalization to duty Hospitals at the
Prefecture of Attica.
It is noticed that the point made at the Report, regarding the difficulty that the doctors of the
“Medical Intervention” faced, in order to have access to the cells area, does not come up to reality,
because, as the president of the N.G.O. herself has mentioned, the access is totally free. She was
indeed inside the cells during the visiting time of the Committee.
Beyond any other examinations, which are conducted after the doctors’ order in hospitals, it
also takes place once a month, with the initiative of the competent Service and in collaboration with
the Ministry of Health and Social Solidarity, a chest examination by a mobile unit of the Ministry of
Health, which visits the detention areas for this particular reason. For every patient detainee, a
folder is opened by the doctor, which is kept inside the surgery and in which all the medical data
concerning the foreigner are registered. (Patient’s Register)
Since 5-2-2007, regardless of the above procedure, a surgery at the Aliens Division of Attica
has been operating, under the auspices of the Ministry of Health and Social Solidarity (Hellenic
Center for Infectious Diseases Control), for the preventive examination of asylum seekers, staffed
with appropriate doctors.
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