Article 60 was still not applied to him despite the precariousness of his condition, which had been known for a long time. Access to health care Medical care is reported almost unanimously to be highly inadequate. Most prisons have a small sick bay, generally very poorly equipped. There are also four prison hospitals, two of which are for psychiatric patients. I women's prison has neither a sick bay nor a medical consulting room.
Consultations take place anywhere, in corridors, the canteen, cells, or adminsitrative offices.
They therefore depend exclusively on the health care provided by the prison administration. Special treatments Prisoners with Aids are frequently treated in sick bays where the nursing staff, in the absence of any infrastructure, are restricted to basic health-care provision. In theory, seropositive prisoners and those with Aids are treated both by the prison's medical personnel and the public health service. It would appear however that doctors practising in prisons are reluctant to use the public health service. Patients are only transferred to outside establishments if their condition is very serious.