- 57 c. the Prison Hospital at Korydallos Prison Complex 170. The Prison Hospital provided physical care, psychiatric patients being placed in the nearby Psychiatric Unit. As already indicated (cf. paragraph 91), it had a nationwide vocation and was operating at almost full capacity (69 patients) - but was not overcrowded - at the time of the delegation's visit. The three doctors with permanent posts were two general practitioners and a dentist; as for the fifteen doctors with temporary contracts, six of them were performing the compulsory 12 months service in a prison (or in the countryside) following completion of their studies. The visiting consultants included a urologist, orthopaedist, dermatologist, and an ENT specialist. The nursing staff of eight included six fully qualified nurses, the two others being prison officers who had been trained in-house. In addition, twenty prisoners acted as nursing assistants. The staff was completed by 35 prison officers. 171. The main patient accommodation consisted of six 10 to 12 bed dormitories and two rooms each with three beds, situated on the first floor. A few beds were also available on other floors, for those who wished - or needed - to be held separately from other patients and for the occasional female prisoner. Hygiene was not, in general, of a very high level in the patient accommodation. More specifically, the delegation observed that the bed linen was dirty and often in a poor state of repair. The CPT recommends that these deficiencies be remedied. Living space was rather restricted in some of the dormitories. However, this was palliated by the fact that patients were able to move about the premises quite freely; further, there was ready access to exercise yards and shower facilities. 172. HIV positive prisoners were held on the third floor, in accommodation offering more living space than that enjoyed by patients on the first floor. However, they were placed under conditions of strict segregation: no contact was allowed with other patients; further, possibilities for outdoor exercise (also taken in isolation from others) were limited. The CPT has already made a recommendation on this subject (cf. paragraph 163). 173. Both the Prison Hospital management and other staff (one of the doctors at the Hospital; the head doctor of the Mens Prison) stated that the establishment was not in fact a hospital in the real sense; and this was confirmed by the delegation's own observations. Rather basic but nevertheless adequate facilities existed for specialist examinations. However, there was not the staff, nor the premises, nor the equipment necessary for the normal activities of a hospital. The establishment served rather as a care facility for sick prisoners awaiting their transfer to a proper hospital and as a place for convalescence after hospital treatment. This situation would not be a particular source of concern if the interface between the Prison Hospital and the civil hospital system operated satisfactorily. However, as already indicated (cf. paragraph 165), it appeared that this was not the case.