Prison doctors are invited to hearings in the SPO

According to information from Vijesti, health workers are invited to give statements regarding the treatment and medical treatment of detained persons, who are in Spuž or are currently undergoing hospital treatment at one of the state or private clinics.

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UIKS (illustration), Photo: Boris Pejović
UIKS (illustration), Photo: Boris Pejović
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During the day, the doctors of the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions in Spuze were invited to give a statement before the inspectors of the Special Police Department regarding the treatment and health treatment of detained persons, who are in Spuze or are currently undergoing hospital treatment at one of the state or private clinics, they learn. News in UIKS.

The doctors were invited to give a statement in their capacity as citizens, and as part of the extensive investigation by the SPO, whether there are abuses in the relationship between UIKS and doctors of other health institutions regarding the status of detained persons, who are provided with medical assistance.

"Vijesti" has learned that as part of the investigation, certain doctors of the Clinical Center, directors of some clinics, and members of the council, whose names are often found in the medical records of detainees, and who were or are currently undergoing hospital treatment, will be questioned.

The police launched an extensive investigation in the framework of which they are investigating whether there are abuses in the work of individual doctors in the system of the Clinical Center of Montenegro (KCCG) and UIKS, based on whose consular reports the former director of the Administration, Veselin Veljović, was hospitalized for 22 days in that institution .

Police interest came after the accused Veljović was transferred to the Clinic for Neurology of the Clinical Center for treatment last week, where he was assigned a special hospital suite.

The fact that Veljović is being treated at a clinic, which is not in charge of treating his chronic illness, was an additional alarm that possibly the former police chief should not continue to be cared for in a hospital.

The police will determine during the further investigation, but also by examining the medical documentation, whether in the system of the KCCG, someone without a medical background writes hospital days to Veljović and allows privileges in the apartment of the Clinic for Neurology.

Due to his poor health, Veljović was transferred from the detention unit of the Administration for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions in Spuze on May 20 of this year and placed in the KCCG for treatment.

If abuses are found during the investigation and expert examination of the medical documentation, the SPO will prosecute all doctors, based on whose reports, there was abuse of hospital treatment.

Director of the Clinical Center of Montenegro (KCCG), Dr. Aleksandar Radović, made a statement on Monday in the Special Police Department, regarding the hospital treatment of the detainee Veljović.

Radović confirmed to "Vijesta" that he gave a statement to the police as a citizen and that based on the doctor's report, he gave all the requested information and answered all the questions.

"When it comes to the accommodation of detainees and prisoners who are undergoing hospital treatment in the Clinical Center of Montenegro and who are under the supervision of the police forces, the practice is that they stay in separate rooms, separated from other patients. We remind you that most of the rooms in KCCG are triple or quadruple. Detainees and prisoners, by the way, when possible, are not accommodated with civilians so that they are not exposed to harassment and inconvenience. The separation of detainees and prisoners is, therefore, a practice, not for their sake, but for the comfort of the other patients", the KCCG wrote in the reply.

After questioning the KCCG director, the former police director is still being treated in the suite of the Clinic for Neurology.

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