Is the 3MDG fund providing health care to prisoners?

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Half of inmates linked to drug cases
Eithinzar Kyaw
Eleven
Wed, 09/26/2018 - 10:14

About half of 90,000 inmates in prisons who are serving their prison terms are linked to drug charges, according to the Three Millennium Development Goal Fund (3MDG) which is providing health care to prisoners

Inmates are included in the most vulnerable group and have no easy access to health care. There are limitations for them to get vaccination against some diseases and to receive heath care service. They are at higher risk for infectious diseases such as TB, HIV, hepatitis and diarrhea.

3MDG is working to conduct medical checks and give treatments for TB, HIV and hepatitis patients in prisons and to build health infrastructures. The 3MDG handed over medical clinics in the prisons in Myitkyina and Lashio, to the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Tomas Lundstrom, head of 3MDG fund said: “Thanks to the medical clinics in the prisons, inmates will better understand health right which is one of human rights to be enjoyed by every citizen equally. The 3MDG is mainly working to provide quality health care to the most vulnerable people who suffer discrimination among human society in Myanmar.”

Since 2017, the 3MDG fund has started carrying out the construction, repairs and maintenance of health infrastructures in prisons in Insein, Myitkyina, Lashio and Mandalay in order to provide better health care to inmates in prisons and prison camps. The 3MDG fund’s works will complete this year. A partner organization of the 3MDG fund is carrying out the management of chronic diseases, screening and vaccination against hepatitis-B, HIV and TB and basic health care for inmates.