8Health and medical attention

8 Health and medical attention

8 Health and medical attention

(1) Each detainee must be supplied with such medical and dental treatment as, in the opinion of a medical officer, dental officer or registered nurse, is necessary to promote and maintain the detainee’s health and well-being.

(2) Each detainee must, as soon as practicable after being admitted to a detention centre, be subjected to an examination by a medical officer or registered nurse for the purpose of determining the detainee’s state of health and the results of the examination must be recorded.

(3) If a medical officer or registered nurse recommends to the centre manager that the employment, diet, exercise or other treatment of a detainee should be varied or modified for reasons of health, the centre manager must carry the recommendation into effect in so far as is reasonably practicable.

(4) If it is not reasonably practicable to carry the recommendation or any part of it into effect, the centre manager must report that fact to the Secretary.

(5) The centre manager may isolate a detainee from other detainees if—

(a) the detainee is suffering from an infectious medical condition, and

(b) there is a risk of other detainees becoming infected with that condition, and

(c) the condition is, in the opinion of a medical officer or a registered nurse, sufficiently serious as to require the detainee’s isolation.