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Communicable disease a real hazard for jail inmates: Home ministry report
November 7, 2019 07:25 am
KATHMANDU, Nov 7: With prisons across the country seeing a steady rise in the number of inmates, communicable diseases have emerged as a serious health hazard for them. Prison authorities are compelled to incarcerate both inmates of sound health and those suffering from communicable diseases in the same rooms because of overcrowding, says a report prepared by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
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