Female inmates in Şakran awaiting for ambulance
İZMİR (DİHA) - As Turkish authorities continue remaining silent in the face of the increasingly ongoing deaths of ill prisoners, at least 412 ill inmates in Turkish prisons are awaiting treatment and release.
Communist Worker's Party of Turkey member Evrim Erdoğdu in Şakran women's prison is awaiting an ambulance in order to be able to receive treatment. According to her visitor Ayla Subaşı, Erdoğdu who was already suffering from bronchitis and asthma when first jailed has been through further health problems such as herniation and rheumatism ever since due to the very poor conditions in prison. Subaşı told that: “Following several applications to the prison administration demanding treatment for her health problem, she was allowed to visit a hospital but she had an asthma attack in the ring vehicle (used for the transfer of prisoners) while on the way to hospital. She was therewith given immediate treatment to overcome the crisis and brought back to prison without being provided treatment for her health problem.”
Subaşı pointed out that Erdoğdu who later demanded to be taken to hospital in an ambulance was told by the prison administration that there was no ambulance in prison and that only ring vehicles were to be used for the transfers.
According to Subaşı, Erdoğdu was later transferred to Aliağa state hospital, again in a ring vehicle, where she was given only injection against hernia. “She needs to be treated at a fully-equipped hospital but she cannot do this by using a ring vehicle which triggers her health problems. She is having an asthma attack every week and this is advancing more and more every day. The prison administration denies her transfer other than in a ring vehicle.”
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