2015 | Personnel is lacking in the facilities of detention. After 9 pm there are no specialists of health in the detention facility. Recommendations are to seek to improve this situation, ensure that there is enough health care personnel and that proper services are provided. Persons who were transferred to the isolation cells were not checked for their health condition. The recommendation is that the person in islolation should be checked daily for his/her health condition. | Report details |
2017 | The NPM recommends that persons detained should be checked for health in 24 hours after the moment of detention. | Report details |
2018 | Recommendations: - To the Director of the Prison Department: to consider ensuring the need for nursing services (medical examinations, proper medicine dispensing, administering, monitoring of effects, and documentation of consumption) in Lukiškės Remand Prison at night (for example, by concluding a service purchase agreement with a health care institution and allocating the necessary funding). To ensure training of health care workers in detention institutions on how to identify potential ill-treatment of detainees by officers, how to interview a person who may have been ill-treated, and how to record a medical examination, the statements of the examinee relevant to the medical examination and the conclusion on how much the person's statements correspond to the examination results. - To the Director of Lukiškės Remand Prison: to ensure that there are 5 employees in the psychological service, and that during a long-term leave (childcare leave), that services are provided by a substitute psychologist. | Report details |
2023 | 16. The investigation was initiated at the initiative of the Seimas Ombudsperson after assessing the fact that, in practice, there are cases where sentenced persons indicated that they cannot continue/start receiving dental prosthesis services or go to a consultation with a dentist because they do not have the funds to pay for transportation, which until 01/01/ 2023 was performed for free. Sentenced/arrested persons must pay the transportation costs even if the prison doctor indicates that such a consultation is necessary for the patient. | Report details |