36. Moreover, the National Institution undertook an unannounced visit of the Juveniles Care Centre
established in 1973 as a centre for reforming and rehabilitating juveniles, which increasingly
developed in conjunction with the enactment of the provisions of the Decree-law Number (17)
of 1976 concerning juveniles, culminating with the establishment of a more advanced specialized
centre that is dedicated to juveniles and that includes most of the services needed by this segment,
where the delegation of the National Institution inspected the public and private facilities of the
Centre, and the places of detention and quarantine, and met most of the juveniles in the Centre from
among males and females separately.
37. Moreover, the delegation of the National Institution inspected the school inside the Centre and met
with the teaching staff and perused the syllabi, and the delegation completed its tour by visiting
the specialized vocational workshops related to carpentry, electricity and agriculture regarding the
male juveniles, and coiffure and household management as regards female juveniles.
38. As to healthcare, the National Institution has previously visited the concerned clinic at the Centre
given that it is allocated for the segment of detainees and inmates at the Reform and Rehabilitation
Centre and provisional detention of women, which is a health clinic that operates round the clock.
39. Concerning psychological care, the juveniles in need of psychological care are referred by the social
workers (specialists) to the psychiatrist present at the Center, who would in turn refer the cases in
need of psychological care to the Psychiatric Hospital in coordination with the medical center at the
Ministry of Interior.
40. In a related context the National Institution visited detention Center for males and females, with
the aim of ascertaining the extent of the availability of a suitable environment which achieves the
dignity of the male or female detainee, in a manner guaranteeing to them the maximum level of
legal protection in accordance with the national, regional and international human rights standards,
where the delegation of the National Institution observed the services offered at the Center, and
the mechanism of placing the detainees in it, including the performance of primary medical
examinations for them, and it also perused the statements which showed that the absorptive
capacity of the buildings available reaches (450) male and female detainees, while the unoccupied
present number of those buildings is less than that.
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