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[Subsidiary] Duty to submit annual report. L.N. 353/81.
INTE Duty to report use of strait-jacket or confinement in protected room to Commissioner. L.N. 242/83.
Duty to conform to rules and Commissioner's order, etc.
Duty to furnish report as to the mental condition of a prisoner under sentence of death.
Duty to draw attention of Superintendent to prisoners with suicidal intentions. L.N. 44/66.
Hours of duty. G.N.A. 68/61. L.N. 44/66. L.N. 353/81.
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Prison Rules
[1986 Ed.
157. The Medical Officer shall, as soon as possible after the 31 December in each year, deliver to the Commissioner for transmission to the Director of Medical and Health Services a report containing-
(a) the number of sick among the prisoners for the year just ended;
(b) the rate of mortality among the prisoners;
(c) particulars as to the state of the sanitary conditions of the prisons;
(d) the type of diseases most prevalent in the prisons, and the defects in the construction or management of the prisons to which such diseases may be attributable;
(e) the precautions to be taken to prevent the recurrence of such diseases.
158. The Medical Officer shall report to the Commissioner-
(a) the use of a strait-jacket for the restraint of a violent prisoner under rule 67; and
(b) the confinement in a protected room of any prisoner under rule 68A.
159. The Medical Officer shall conform to these rules and the Commissioner's orders, and shall support the Superintendent in the maintenance of discipline and order and assist him in the safe custody of the prisoners.
160. The Medical Officer or, if the prisoner shall have been sent to a mental hospital for observation, the medical officer in charge of such hospital shall keep under constant and special observation every prisoner confined under sentence of death in prison, and shall not later than 7 days after the date of the sentence, submit to the Superintendent a report on such prisoner's mental condition for immediate transmission to the Governor.
161. The Medical Officer shall draw the attention of the Superintendent to any prisoner who he may have reason to think has suicidal intentions in order that special observation may be kept on such prisoner, and the Superintendent shall, without delay, direct that such prisoner be observed at frequent intervals.
(ii) Chief Officer on Hospital Duties
162. A Chief Officer when appointed to a prison hospital shall be on duty at such hours as the Commissioner may direct and shall not absent himself from his duties without the permission of the Superintendent.
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