Emiten recomendaciones para evitar Covid-19 en las cárceles

Originally published by Publinews on 20/03/2020

Summary

The National Office for the Prevention of Torture issued 13 recommendations:1. Provide persons deprived of liberty and administrative personnel within the prisons with drinking water, soap, medicines and minimum prophylactic kits. 2. In relation to new people entering the prisons, they must be subject to constant monitoring for a period of 12 days, contemplating the incubation period of Covid-19. 3. Optimize the prison’s open spaces in order to mitigate overcrowding of people deprived of liberty. 4. Consider the implementation of an isolation area within each detention center for the isolation of possible contagions with the necessary resources. 5. Non-essential visits should be limited only to one family member, who will undergo extreme health control measures and he/she must not be a senior citizen. 6. Maintain constant monitoring by the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance to the custody staff, managers and nurses of each detention center. 7. Provide training to sector monitors on symptoms to detect possible cases of Covid-19. 8. Place gel alcohol dispensers in all areas of detention centers. 9. Instruct on the mandatory use of masks in population with respiratory symptoms. 10. Implement an exclusive area where the elderly and / or with chronic diseases such as diabetes, bronchial asthma, heart problems and others are located. 11. Make the necessary coordination with the judicial authorities and the National Institute of Forensic Sciences to establish the mechanism for the immediate transfer of the patients with symptoms of Covid-19. 12. At the time of finding a person deprived of liberty, custodian or center staff with symptoms of Covid-19, the immediate transfer to the healthcare centers established by the Ministry of Public Health should be arranged. 13. Request a special area in the Temporary Hospital installed in the “Parque de la Industria”, as well as in the National Specialized Hospital of Villa Nueva, Guatemala, for the isolation and care of persons deprived of liberty.

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Se activan protocolos preventivos contra el Coronavirus

Originally published by Dirección General del Sistema Penitenciario on 19/03/2020

Summary

Masks, gloves, sanitizers and chlorine have been distributed in the Guatemalan prisons, to be able to disinfect all environments and avoid any type of situation that puts those deprived of liberty and system workers at risk.Prisoners are being evaluated on a daily basis with a thermometer, based on what has been suggested by the health authorities, and, if someone has a temperature above 37.5, a more exhaustive review by other doctors will be done. If the prisoner has COVID-19 he/she will be transferred immediately to a healthcare center.

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Sistema Penitenciario implementa protocolos para prevenir el Covid-19

Originally published by Dirección General del Sistema Penitenciario on 15/03/2020

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The General Director of the Criminal System in Guatemala, issued the order to implement Covid-19 prevention protocols.The objectives of this plan is to provide guidelines to prevent the spread in prisons, diagnose and treat appropriately the cases of coronavirus in the prisoners and in the kids under 4 years that live in the prisons.

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Sistema Penitenciario prepara zonas de aislamiento para prevenir contagio de covid -19

Originally published by Prensa Libre on 15/03/2020

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The General Direction of the Criminal System prepares isolation areas to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the 21 prisons in Guatemala, which must be at most for six inmates.The agents of the National Civil Police (PNC) support with the transfer of the suspects of the new coronavirus to isolation centers and also to provide perimeter security to families who are under house quarantine.In addition, he said that they distributed masks to the officers as part of the sanitary measures, although he clarified that not everyone has them because they were not prepared, but they will buy them to protect everyone.

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Coronavirus: Distribuyen 40.000 mascarillas en centros carcelarios de Guatemala

Originally published by Agencia Guatemalteca de Noticias on 13/03/2020

Summary

The prison system began the distribution of 45,000 face masks in the 21 prisons in Guatemala, as part of the sanitary measures imposed by the Federal Government. They will also distribute information regarding hand washing and will provide conferences to the prisoners so they will know the official information about COVID-19.Another measure was the suspension of the visits for seven days in the Guatemalan prisons. They will also enable isolation areas in the cells as well as places of coexistence within the prisons, to prevent the spread of the virus.

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