A workshop on monitoring and oversight of health services in the penitentiary system took place online on 14 December 2020.
A “Report on the Policy and Legal Framework for Monitoring and Oversight of Penitentiary Health Services” was presented to representatives of the Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Health, Office of the Human Right’s Defender, the Prison Medicine Centre, penitentiary services and civil society organisations. The recommendations from the report ware discussed in great details. The specific attention was paid to the main recommendations regarding the penitentiary health services’ licensing, as well as to an oversight over an infection and sanitary-epidemic regime in the penitentiary institutions.
This activity was organized within the framework of the Council of Europe project “Enhancing health care and human rights protection in prisons in Armenia” financed by the Action Plan for Armenia (2019 – 2022)