On World Day to Fight Breast Cancer, the NGO Venezuelan Prison Observatory asked the State to guarantee care for inmates by a team of specialist doctors, including gynecologists, oncologists and internists, and to enable equipped medical offices.
The NGO Venezuelan Prison Observatory (OVP) requested this Saturday, October 19, regarding the World Day to Fight Breast Cancer, that the State guarantee access for inmates to a periodic mammogram, since – they denounce – hundreds of Women deprived of liberty have never received specialized medical evaluation within detention centers.
“We call on the Ministry for the Penitentiary Service to carry out a comprehensive evaluation of the more than 2,500 women who are in the INOF – the main women’s prison -, police cells and” other penitentiaries, the NGO said.
She explained that imprisoned women around the world “face serious barriers to accessing essential health services, such as mammograms,” a situation that in Venezuela – where they estimate a total of 2,543 inmates – is evident in the difficulty in accessing these. studies, the agency reported EFE.
According to the organization’s 2023 records, only in a women’s prison “was a gynecological day held,” which left the population of INOF and 15 other female annexes, spaces set up near male prisons, without this type of care.
Inmates and former prisoners consulted by the OVP “expressed that, during their time in prison, they never received a specialized medical examination.”
For this reason, the observatory asks the State to guarantee care for inmates by a team of specialist doctors, including gynecologists, oncologists and internists, and to enable “fully equipped” medical offices, guaranteeing adequate care.
“We recommend that, as an initial measure, a massive day of mammograms be organized to ensure that no inmate is left without being evaluated, thus allowing the early detection of possible cases of breast cancer and contributing to the fight against this disease,” he concludes.
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