CAT/OP/7
Annex
Checklist on health-care issues relating to the monitoring of
places of detention1
Noted
Yes
No
Comments (problems/difficulties)
Admission procedures
1. Body search procedures
2. Medical screening, including
medication history, physical
examination and review of
physiological systems
3. Documentation of all procedures
done upon admission
4. Access to health-care services
(medical, dental and mental health
services) without discrimination of
any kind
5. Information provided to
detainees, for instance, on their
rights or on the prison regime
Files and records
1. Prisoner file management system
2. Consistency of general data
between administrative records and
medical records
3. Recording of medical information
and problems
4. Documentation of injuries or
medical complaints (including
mental and psychological
complaints)
5. Mechanisms for reporting
and documenting torture and
ill-treatment
6. Compilation and storage of
records
1
Based on the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Istanbul Protocol and the United Nations Standard
Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules).
3