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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Monday, May 22, 2017
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BACOLOD City – Inmates at detention facilities in this city badly need medical attention, according to Councilor Em Ang.
The chairwoman of the Sangguniang Panlungsod committee on health lamented that inmates do not have immediate access to medicines and “congestion” in their cells worsen whatever sickness they have.
“They told me [that] … many of the inmates [get] sick but do not receive medical attention, and because of congestion, gakalatnan ang iban nga mga inmates,” she said.
Ang and her office and the City Health Office (CHO) have been conducting medical checkups and distributing medicines at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology-managed district jails in barangay Handumanan and Taculing.
Many inmates have hypertension and other medical conditions that need maintenance treatment, Ang said.
“Because of their detention, they cannot immediately seek medical attention,” she told Panay News.
“And our BJMP does not have medicines for the inmates. We need to bring in doctors to the jail so they (inmates) can be checked up,” she added.
Ang also said her office was the one providing medicines during their medical missions at the detention facilities.
“Believe it or not, the CHO does not have medicines intended for the inmates,” said the councilor.
Around 150 inmates at the Handumanan district jail availed themselves of medicines during Ang’s medical mission in April.
On Aug. 3 last year “my office also conducted a medical mission at BJMP-Taculing,” she said. “Around 200 inmates benefited.”
Ang said their medical missions also include dental services.
She said she was making the medical and dental services in jails “a regular program of my office, together with the CHO.”/PN
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