The World Medical Association welcomes you to the first course for prison doctors

The course presents relevant topics in ethics and human rights that are important to doctors and other health personnel working in prisons.

The objectives of the course are to present relevant international statements regulating medical treatment of prisoners, and to raise the prison doctors’ awareness on their role in various areas of conflicting interests between the prisoner (patient) and the prison administration, for example during hunger strikes, the patient's right to confidentiality, certifying prisoners for special punishment etc.

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