Kazakhstan: almost 97% of prisoners vaccinated against coronavirus

 In Kazakhstan prisons, 96.7% of prisoners and 97% of personnel received the coronavirus vaccine. Such information was given at a briefing in Nur-Sultan by Zhanar Shaydullina, head of the department of medical support for convicts of the Committee of the Penitentiary System (CPS).

According to the speaker, the country’s correctional facilities were able to survive the pandemic without massive diseases. Thanks to the timely measures taken to prevent cases of infection. Since March 13, 2020, only 214 people have become infected with coronavirus infection in the republic’s correctional facilities.

It should be noted that there are 80 penitentiary institutions in Kazakhstan, including 64 colonies and 16 pre-trial detention centers. The total number of convicted and investigative-arrested persons held in these institutions is more than 34 thousand people.

According to Shaidulina, 65 medical units with hospitals, 6 treatment-and-prophylactic institutions, and 3 anti-tuberculosis hospitals also operate in the penal system. She also noted that thanks to the method of early detection of tuberculosis, the number of newly diagnosed tuberculosis patients in Kazakhstan prisons was reduced by 86 percent.