This 30-months project is part of the Council of Europe Action Plan for Armenia 2019-2022. It is implemented by the Council of Europe in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Health and the Penitentiary Medicine Center.

The aim of the project is to further support the national authorities in reforming healthcare provision and human rights for sentenced persons in Armenia in line with the European standards.

Attention will be given to the following three areas:

  • enhancing regulatory and operational framework for provision of in line with European standards;
  • improvement of the material conditions and the provision of healthcare in prisons;
  • capacity building of the Penitentiary Medicine Centre (PMC).

The project will particularly focus on the improvement of prison healthcare services through introduction of new technologies in healthcare services, such as telemedicine and electronic database system of medical records, ensuring protection of healthcare rights of mentally-ill persons in penitentiary institutions, improvement of preventive healthcare, particularly sanitary-epidemiological and hygienic conditions and control mechanism, modernizing hospital/specialized medical care and services in the penitentiary institutions. Project activities should significantly contribute to improving effectiveness, transparency and accountability of penitentiary prison healthcare in general and the PMC in particular. Proper documentation and reporting on indications of torture, ill-treatment, inhumane and degrading treatment will stay in focus and addressed.

The amount devoted to this project is 750,000 Euros and its implementation started in November 2019 to end in December 2022.
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Armenian penitentiary medical staff expanded their knowledge on documentation and reporting on cases of ill-treatment

A total of 146 medical staff of the penitentiary system in Armenia completed the programme on prevention of ill-treatment in prisons. The training programme was tailored to professional needs of penitentiary medical staff in line with legal amendments recently introduced by the Ministry of Justice on reporting of allegations of ill-treatment cases in prison facilities.

 

As a result of the programme, participants strengthened their skills on recognition of signs, reporting on ill-treatment cases, recording of injuries, intervewing of alleged vicitms in order to ensure proper handling of the cases of ill-treatment in line with the Council of Europe and other international standards.

 

The programme was rolled out from 16 March to 26 September 2021 with ten two-day cascade sessions completed online and two sessions that were held in-person on 18-19 September in Tsaghkadzor and on 25-26 September 2021 in Aghveran.

 

Last two offline sessions were attended by the head and deputy head of the Prison Medicine Center, heads of the Prison Medicine Center subunits, as well as the representative of the Ministry of Justice and served as a forum for open discussion proving unified approach in documentation and reporting of ill-treatment case in penitentiary institutions. These sessions covered, inter alia, the development of skills on interviewing, psychological examination, and work with vulnerable groups.

 

The programme was organised under the framework of the project “Enhancing health care and human rights protection in prisons in Armenia” implemented by the Council of Europe and funded through the Action Plan for Armenia 2019 -2022.

Armenia 28 September 2021
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