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. All the prisoners are really scared of becoming sick as there are no proper medicines, no appropriate treatment and no care.
Some rich prisoners get the medicines they require from relatives or other visitors.
The hospital confiscates almost all these medicines, leaving very little for the patient. Confiscated medicine is then sold at the market. If a complaint is lodged with the prison authorities, it is more usual for them to issue an order banning the bringing of all medicines to the prison rather than to stop the confiscation. As prisoners fear that this kind of order will affect all the other prisoners, no one lodges a complaint about it. On the other hand, if the bribe is paid, they will be immediately admitted to the hospital and treated well.