Baku, August 7, AZERTAC
Recommendations and instructions of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on the prevention of the spread of a new type of coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in our country, protection of public health of population are constantly in the focus of attention of all government agencies, including the Ministry of Justice and large-scale measures are being taken in this direction.
The Ministry of Justice, which always pays special attention to transparency and public relations, uses the opportunities of both civil society representatives and the media, as well as the ministry's official websites and social media pages to ensure citizens' access to justice and regular awareness on justice activities. During the special quarantine regime in the direction of implementation of the President's instructions, the ministry's official Facebook page regularly broadcasts live broadcasts on various areas of justice, which also serves to raise legal awareness of the population.
AZERTAC reports that, as one of the measures taken in this direction, an online public discussion on "Justice activity: a public discussion" was organized on the 8th of August.
Iftikhar Gurbanov, Deputy Chief of the General Medical Department of the Ministry of Justice, and Fuzuli Huseynov, Chief of the Department of organization of Medical business of the General Medical Department, who participated in the public discussion, informed about the organization of medical services at the Ministry of Justice.
It was informed that, during the pandemic, like all structural units of the Ministry of Justice, the General Medical Department is working in an intensified mode. The department has mobilized its activities to combat the coronavirus, as well as to implement the decisions of the Operational Headquarters, as well as instructions, orders and directives issued by the Ministry of Justice.
It was noted that, the Ministry of Justice has approved a large-scale action plan since the discovery of a new type of coronavirus infection in persons entering the country. Within the framework of this plan, preventive works have been started in all subordinate institutions. Sanitary control posts have been set up at almost all enterprises. These posts are equipped with personal protective equipment, thermometers, disinfection equipment and other means. Necessary conditions have been created in each institution to control the infection, and the works are continued
today. Disinfection of all vehicles entering the penitentiary institutions and the area has begun. At the same time, all instructions on the importance of wearing medical masks, physical distance, hand washing and other instructions were delivered to the staff and prisoners.
It was specially stressed that, the leadership of the Ministry of Justice, which constantly monitors the organization of work at the highest level, taking into account the importance of awareness-raising, from the very beginning instructed the subordinate agencies to inform employees to combat this infection. As one of the first steps in this direction, in case of infection, specialists were assigned to ensure immediate treatment of infected persons, to control contacts, to pay attention to meeting quarantine rules and to take other preventive measures, and special departments were established at the specialized medical institution. These individuals attended courses at the Institute for the Improvement of Physicians. At present, these processes are carried out, and all penitentiaries do not have an epidemiologically tense environment, and infection is fully controlled. Control measures are continued without break. Today, our main work is focused on identifying contacts, detecting infection, controlling contacts, and providing treatment and surveillance for individual infections.
