Friday, July 13, 2007

Medical Justice Network [new website] / Medical Justice, 12 July 2007
http://www.medicaljustice.org.uk/index.htm
"medical justice objectives
general:
* transfer of responsibility for medical care of detainees from Home Office to NHS
* effective implementation of Operation Enforcement Manual policies that vulnerable individuals should not "ordinarily" be detained (torture survivors, psychiatrically disturbed, children, etc....
* an end to obstruction to medical care by doctor of detainees' choice
specific medical
* detainees to be screened and treated (voluntarily, but as of right) for infectious diseases: TB, HIV ...
* revision of detention centre medical guidelines for:
- malaria prophylaxis for returnees
- re-feeding of hunger strikers"