Summary:
The jail hospital has also facility to admit inmates, if required.”Responding to the jail superintendent’s demand, chief medical officer Dr Ranjan Gautam said, “We will ask the district malaria officer and the municipal corporation to start fogging the district jail premises.” Thus, we have demanded fogging and anti-larval spraying of the jail premises,” he said.According to jail officials, the district jail has a capacity of 3,500 prisoners, but there are as many as 2,900 inmates lodged here, at present. We provide them what we receive from the government.”Talking about medical facilities at the jail, he said: “We have two doctors at the jail hospital. “We have little resources at hand to fight mosquito breeding on and around the jail premises, which is in rural area.”Mishra said they were providing generic mosquito repellent lotion to the prisoners for their protection. “We don’t have branded mosquito repellent lotion for the inmates..