Chapter 6 – Conclusion Malaysian prison health services are yet to be fully integrated into the national public health service; i.e. the responsibility of prison health and medical services transferred from the Ministry of Home Affairs to the Ministry of Health. The main objective of such a move is to ensure that prisoners would receive the same health services as the general population, with all expenses for primary health care being covered by the Ministry of Health. Further, prison health services are obliged to operate according to an ‘equivalence of care’ principle, which requires that prisoners be provided with care of equivalent quality to that provided in the general community within the country. The Commission is of the view that the right to health in prison can be improved systematically, but will require full cooperation from the various stakeholders mainly the Ministry Of Health, Ministry Of Home Affairs and the Prisons Department to work towards ensuring that the prison condition in Malaysia are constitutional and consistent with health, safety, and human dignity, in order to achieve a criminal justice system that respects individual rights. xi