Even if there are cases of prisoners being over-tortured, the prison authorities try to cover it up to protect the Akhan Lu Gyi . If there is no alternative, they blame the Akhan Lu Gyi , saying that he was responsible for the case. On such occasions, the senior prisoner of the cell always takes full responsibility for the problem, but he will usually just be moved to another hall. There is only one hospital in each prison in Burma. A prisoner has the right to receive medical treatment.
Every prisoner can go to the prison hospital to have their illness treated.
This is in accordance with the jail manual. However, the hospital provides no medicine except some kinds of temporary analgesic and antipyretic, such as Paracetamol. There is only one doctor at the prison hospital. The prison hospital is always dirty and the sanitation is very poor. All medicines from the prison hospital are smuggled out of the prison and sold in the markets outside.