Equality at heart of health plan

The Ministry of Public Health has joined hands with the Department of Corrections and National Health Security Office to encourage safer practices among 260,000 prisoners countrywide by increasing measures to screen sexual and respiratory disease transmission, saying that the prisoners should have equal rights to medical treatment.

Dr Opas Karnkawinpong, the department’s permanent secretary, said that the three parties are working together to promote and prevent communicable diseases in very crowded prisons nationwide. And that collaboration will be strengthened under the cooperative framework signed by the Department of Disease Control and the Department of Corrections.

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