(b) reasonable access to non-essential mental health care with an emphasis on the inmate’s rehabilitation and successful reintegration into the community; and (c) access to preventative health measures. (2) The Correctional Service must take into consideration an inmate’s state of health and health care needs - (a) in all decisions affecting the inmate, including decisions relating to placement, confinement, observation, supervision, transfer and segregation; and (b) in the preparation of the inmate for release. (3) Each correctional facility must have a medical practitioner appointed or assigned to it, to serve as medical officer for such facility. Functions of medical officer 24. (1) The medical officer appointed or assigned under section 23(3) - (a) is responsible for the health care of all inmates in the correctional facility for which he or she is appointed or assigned and must - (i) practicable, ensure that every inmate is medically examined on admission to, and discharge from, that correctional facility; (ii) where practicable, ensure that on admission to the correctional facility, every inmate is kept apart from other inmates until such time that such inmate has been examined as contemplated in subparagraph (i); (iii) where practicable, visit the correctional facility daily or at other regular intervals or when so requested by the officer in charge, and inspect the hygiene condition of the correctional facility and medically examine inmates at such times as he or she may consider necessary; (iv) keep a record or cause a record to be kept of the state of health of every inmate; and (v) report to the officer in charge any circumstance or condition regarding the correctional facility, an inmate, or treatment of an inmate which may, in his or her opinion, require consideration on medical or health grounds; and (b) must, for the purpose of safeguarding or restoring the health of any inmate or preventing the spread of or risk of any disease, take such action or direct such action to be taken with regard to such inmate in his or her care, including - (i) feeding an inmate; (ii) inoculating or vaccinating an inmate against disease; (iii) medically examining and treating an inmate; (iv) isolating an inmate;
(b) reasonable access to non-essential mental health care with an emphasis on the inmate’s rehabilitation and successful reintegration into the community; and (c) access to preventative health measures. (2) The Correctional Service must take into consideration an inmate’s state of health and health care needs - (a) in all decisions affecting the inmate, including decisions relating to placement, confinement, observation, supervision, transfer and segregation; and (b) in the preparation of the inmate for release. (3) Each correctional facility must have a medical practitioner appointed or assigned to it, to serve as medical officer for such facility. Functions of medical officer 24. (1) The medical officer appointed or assigned under section 23(3) - (a) is responsible for the health care of all inmates in the correctional facility for which he or she is appointed or assigned and must - (i) practicable, ensure that every inmate is medically examined on admission to, and discharge from, that correctional facility; (ii) where practicable, ensure that on admission to the correctional facility, every inmate is kept apart from other inmates until such time that such inmate has been examined as contemplated in subparagraph (i); (iii) where practicable, visit the correctional facility daily or at other regular intervals or when so requested by the officer in charge, and inspect the hygiene condition of the correctional facility and medically examine inmates at such times as he or she may consider necessary; (iv) keep a record or cause a record to be kept of the state of health of every inmate; and (v) report to the officer in charge any circumstance or condition regarding the correctional facility, an inmate, or treatment of an inmate which may, in his or her opinion, require consideration on medical or health grounds; and (b) must, for the purpose of safeguarding or restoring the health of any inmate or preventing the spread of or risk of any disease, take such action or direct such action to be taken with regard to such inmate in his or her care, including - (i) feeding an inmate; (ii) inoculating or vaccinating an inmate against disease; (iii) medically examining and treating an inmate; (iv) isolating an inmate;