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Africa’s prisons are hotbeds of disease and hunger problems that have been heightened by COVID-19, a lack of resources and poor planning, health and rights advocates tell
Africa Science Focus.
This week, reporter Charles Pensulo speaks to a former inmate of Malawi’s notoriously overcrowded prisons, who tells us what life was like behind the walls. We hear about the public health threat from tuberculosis and HIV from Thokozile Phiri-Nkhoma, the executive director of Facilitators of Community Transformation, while Alexious Kamangila from the legal non-profit Reprieve tells us why the poorest members of Malawi’s society still find themselves trapped in the system.
Behind the wall: Africa’s prison health crisis
Overview of an overcrowded cell portrayed early in the morning (6am) The prisoners are waiting the authorization to go out to the common space after some 14 hours spent in critical condition. Copyright: Luca Sola/MSF
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National Spokesperson for Prisons Superintendent Chimwemwe Shaba has confirmed the development.
According to Shaba, over 13, 000 inmates are expected to get the first jab of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Meanwhile, 90 percent of prison officers have received their first jab of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
In a related development, the correctional facility has also said that it is considering of lifting the relational visits ban which was placed in the second wave of the pandemic.
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Malawi Prisons Service (PS) has with immediate effect suspended relational visits from prisons across the country due to the surge of Covid-19 cases.
In a press statement, Malawi Prisons spokesperson Chimwemwe Shaba said the decision was reached in order to prevent and manage further spread of the Covid-19 pandemic as the country in the second wave of the pandemic.
âMalawi Prisons Service wishes to inform members of the general public that in the wake of increasing cases of Covid-19 pandemic across the country, all relational visits to prisons have been completely suspended with immediate effect,â read the statement.
The statement has also assured the general public that through its Taskforce on Covid-19, the department will be monitoring the Covid-19 situation in all prisons across the country.