Lamola said that the department did not employ dentists on a permanent basis as this category of health professionals were specialists and were not available.
This was in response to Parliamentary questions from IFP MP Themba Msimang who said that the facility did not have any dentist appointed on a permanent basis.
‘Inmates at Pollsmoor Correctional Centre had access to dental services provided through a visiting sessional dentist on a weekly basis and when the services of the visiting dentist were not available during the Covid-19 pandemic period, inmates that were requiring those services were referred to the provincial department of health’s local facilities, such as the department of health’s facilities in the same district as the correctional facility.
‘This arrangement is facilitating the humane treatment of inmates by ensuring accessibility of continual dental health-care services.’
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