19 Does the Government plan to modify the rules and regulations so as to prevent arbitrary censorship? 15. Improving Medical Treatments for Inmates The Government states that it is improving medical treatments within detention facilities, for example, by providing yearly health checkups, remote medical examinations, and medical prisons(para. 180-182). The Act on the Execution of Criminal Penalties and the Treatment of Inmates stipulates that inmates shall use internal medical facilities, in principle. In order to receive treatment in external medical facilities, they have to receive permission from the head of the facilities(Article 37, 38). According to the 2014 report by the Ministry of Justice, 36.5% of the inmates have fallen sick over the past five years. There are 128 doctors in detention facilities, as of October 2014, which means that one doctor treats, on average, 142 patients a day. For the past five years, 105 inmates died due to acute myocardial infarction and to sudden cardiac deaths among an yearly average of 31,878 inmates in total. On December 23, 2011 the NHRCK recommended to dispatch full-time psychiatrists and psychiatric health nurses to improve medical treatment conditions for mentally-ill inmates in detention facilities and to come up with related process guidelines. The NHRCK also recommended to provide recurrence prevention measures regarding a case in which an inmate died of liver disease in 2013 at the Jeonju Correctional Institution. Question What efforts have the Government taken to improve medical treatment conditions for inmates and what plans does the Government have?

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