The UN in Cambodia urged the General Department of Prisons (GDP) to provide information on the spread of Covid-19 in the nation’s prisons in a transparent manner – a decision relevant officials said rests with the Ministry of Health and local authorities.
COVID-19 is spreading through Cambodia’s prisons and warrants urgent measures to prevent an uncontrollable outbreak, according to a senior official at the Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Prisons (GDP).
Two inmates stand outside the Kandal Provincial Prison on Thursday. - The Phnom Penh Post/ANN PHNOM PENH, May 28 (Phnom Penh Post/ANN): Covid-19 is spreading through Cambodia’s prisons and warrants urgent measures to prevent an uncontrollable outbreak, according to a senior official at the Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Prisons (GDP).
GDP spokesman Nuth Savna told The Post on May 27 that officials were identifying prisons to inspect and implement preventive measures but were facing a shortage of medical supplies.
“GDP needs Covid-19 test kits. We also need traditional Chinese medicines and other medicines to treat inmates,” he said. “We are trying to ask the government and partner organisations for assistance,” he said.
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