Guantanamo detainees ' medical care Separate facilities were prepared to provide for Guantanamo detainees ' medical care . A series of hospitals , dental clinics and psychiatric facilities have been prepared for Guantanamo detainees . On June 7 , 2010 , the " Washington Post " reported , after obtaining the first official figures for capital costs of the Guantanamo camps to be made public , that the current hospital building cost $ 18 . 2 million USD , and a companion psychiatric facility cost 2 . 9 million USD . Military spokesmen have routinely asserted that the detainees receive excellent medical care . Documentary film director Michael Moore used these claims as a central meme in his film " Sicko " to argue that American citizens should receive better medical care . Former detainees on the other hand have described medical care being withheld at the command of interrogators , in order to coerce detainees to confess . Critics have described the use of the detainees ' medical files by interrogators as a violation of medical ethics . Critics have expressed concern that medical personnel violated their professional ethics by aiding in or failing to report the wounds inflicted during interrogations that used prohibited techniques . Over eighty of the detainees ' weights have fallen to life - threatening levels . Many other detainees became obese on the camp ' s food . Dental care . In 2009 Guantanamo captives ' dental care is dispensed at two dental clinic s on the Guantanamo Bay detention camp s . There is a dental clinic at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp s hospital for the captives , and a second clinic in the maximum security Camp 6 . The camp ' s guards have a separate , third dental clinic served by the same dental staff of two dentists and four dental technicians . The quality of the medical care and dental care , at Guantanamo , has been the subject of public disagreement . After a visit to Guantanamo Congressional Representative William Lacy Clay asserted that many Guantanamo captives received dental care for the first time in Guantanamo . He asked " " did Hitler and Pol Pot provide dental care to their prisoners before they killed them ? " " In her book , Kristine Huskey , one of the lawyers at the Center for Constitutional Rights , which was coordinating the captives ' habeas corpus petitions , quoted a motion the Center filed , that described the captives ' dental care as inadequate . After viewing Andy Worthington ' s film , " Witness to Guantanamo " , which compiled interviews with former captives , law professor Peter Jan Honigsberg wrote that the captives said dental care was dispensed at the discretion of the captives ' interrogators . He wrote " " Some prisoners who expected to have cavities filled , had their teeth pulled instead . " " Jane Mayer , writing in " The New Yorker " quoted Rob Kirsch , who represented six Bosnians , who also said dental care was routinely withheld by their interrogators . In 2005 a single dentist , Lieutenant Jennifer Tharp , was responsible for treating all the captives and all the guards . In 2005 captives arms and legs were shackled to the dental chair , and an armed guard was present at all times . In a July 2009 interview Commander Kenneth Bell said that it took several times longer to treat captives as it did to treat guards , for similar dental procedures , because captives didn ' t understand why the dental procedures were in the interest of their health . He said dental procedures were never performed on the captives , without their consent . In April 2008 Adam M . Robinson Jr . , the United States Navy ' s Surgeon General , reported that 6500 dental procedures had been administered to Guantanamo captives since 2002 . References . < div class = " references - small " >