IOA refuses to allow medical specialists to visit prisoners in Ramla hospital

[ 17/10/2010 - 04:44 PM ]

WEST BANK, (PIC)-- The Palestinian prisoner committee said that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) refused to allow a specialized medical committee to visit the Palestinian patients under detention in the Ramla prison hospital and held it fully responsible for their lives. The committee added in its statement that the Palestinian patients in this hospital are not provided with appropriate medical care and their lives are under constant threat of death. It explained that the hospital administration stopped the natural therapy which the prison doctors prescribed for prisoner Suleiman Abu Drie, who lost the ability to move because of the medical neglect, adding that his medical condition is getting worse and the prison administration still refuses to allow him to undergo necessary medical tests to determine the causes of his illness. Prisoner Mohamed Abu Libda also suffered many severe complications after the failure of many surgeries he underwent in prison and became paralyzed in his lower body, the committee said. It also pointed to the deteriorating health conditions of prisoners Omar Khattab, who suffers from prostate problems and infections, and Murad Abu Ma'ilik, who suffers from serious problems in his large intestine.