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High-tech clinic opens at Al Ain prison
A clinic equipped with high-tech facilities has opened at Al Ain prison, helping to eliminate the need to transfer inmates to hospitals, a senior police officer said.
- By Aftab Kazmi, Bureau Chief
- Published: 00:33 April 19, 2008
Al Ain: A clinic equipped with high-tech facilities has opened at Al Ain prison, helping to eliminate the need to transfer inmates to hospitals, a senior police officer said.
"It was causing security problems for both the patients and the public," said Brigadier General Salim Saleh Al Junaibi, Director of the Department of Medical Services at Abu Dhabi Police. He inaugurated the clinic in a ceremony that was attended by Lieutenant Colonel Mattar Saif Al Za'abi, Deputy Director of the Department of Prisons, police and prison officials.
Equipment
This is the second such facility that has been opened in Abu Dhabi following that at Al Sadr Prison. He said Lieutenant General Shaikh Saif Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Interior, is keen to provide a high standard of medical care and facilities for prisoners.
Al Junaibi said the clinic includes an emergency section for heart and asthma patients, an X-ray section and a laboratory. The clinic also has qualified doctors and paramedic staff. The facility has the latest equipment to conduct laboratory analysis for detainees.
"It will also enable prison staff to identify the health status of the prisoners and help prevent the mixing of inmates with chronic or dangerous diseases with healthy detainees," he said.
He said plans are to further enhance the clinic's facilities by setting up a quarantine facility for prisoners with chronic or dangerous diseases.
An Aids and other serious disease detection centre will also be set up in the clinic, in addition to a pregnancy detection facility for rape victims.
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