No tuberculosis-related deaths in Georgian prisons
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Inmates in Georgia's prisons are no longer dying of tuberculosis, latest figures show.
In the past three years there were no registered inmate deaths due to tuberculosis, announced head of the Medical Department of Georgia's Ministry of Corrections Tamta Demurishvili.
She said new medicines played an important role in eradicating the death toll caused by tuberculosis in prisons in Georgia.
In 2015 Georgia introduced a new treatment regime for inmates with tuberculous and this involved new medicines, Demurishvili explained.
Last year 13 people joined the treatment course while this year only seven people joined, showed the figures.
These figures showed the number of people with the illness was also reducing.
No prisoner has committed suicide in Georgian prisons in 2016 thanks to the suicide prevention program the country approved earlier this year.
The Special Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia has released a statement on death of an individual at a Tbilisi penitentiary facility on Monday, reporting the latter's "continued refusal" for medical aid.