to follow the instructions of the treating physicians in order to achieve the required benefit from the treatment. 28. The NIHR also tweeted that those 925 inmates from the Correction and Rehabilitation Center in the Jau District were examined by doctors during the period from 9 to 15 July 2020, and appropriate medicines were dispensed to them. Required health services were given to (22) inmates who are diabetic, and (34) inmates suffering from skin problems or allergies were examined by consultant doctors from Al- Salmaniya Medical Complex and were given the appropriate treatment. 29. The NIHR noted that doctors are the only ones who decide the treatment plan and medical care according to the diagnosis and the medical protocol followed for each case and confirmed that it will continue to meet directly with the inmates, listen to their observations, receive requests for assistance from them, and coordinate directly with the management of the Center to ensure the right to health for all. 30. On a related level, the NIHR monitored allegations circulated on some social media platforms about an increase in the local communication tariff at the inmates Correction and Rehabilitation Center, in addition to a claim that some inmates were deprived of their right to communicate with the outside world through phone calls with their families. Immediately, the NIHR contacted the concerned authorities to establish the facts of the allegations. It was found that there were no changes in the tariff for local communications and that communications take place as scheduled and at the assigned times, and that it was planned according to a new administrative system that simulates what is in place in most of the correction and rehabilitation centers around the world, where a set of phone numbers of persons the inmate wishes to communicate with is specified in advance. 31. In this regard, the NIHR noted that, by viewing CCTV surveillance cameras in the Correction and Rehabilitation Center, it monitored a group of inmates vandalizing and destroying communication devices available for use by everyone, which casts a shadow on the right of the rest of the inmates to communicate with the outside world. 32. The NIHR called for peaceful and civilized means in expressing the objection of some inmates to the new communication system, through direct dialogue with the administration of the Correction and Rehabilitation Center without resorting to vandalism, which makes them accountable for their actions and deprives the rest of the inmates of their right to communicate. 33. The NIHR also stressed the importance of resorting to official channels that have jurisdiction over such allegations, and not to circulate unreliable information and stir up public opinion. 34. The NIHR also monitored an allegation about depriving an inmate from visitation rights without explaining the reasons. At the time, the NIHR NIHR Bahrain- Eighth Annual Report 2020 73

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