A senior official with the International Committee of the Red Cross issued a rare statement of alarm about deteriorating health conditions and inadequate preparations for aging prisoners at Guantánamo Bay.
A recovery room at a clinic in the Camp 5 detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, April 17, 2019.
In March, Hamilton and other delegates made a routine quarterly visit to the detention facility, the organization’s 146th since the wartime prison opened in January 2002. He said the detainees’ “physical and mental health needs are growing and becoming increasingly challenging.
Hamilton said military officials at Guantánamo were “offering some temporary solutions” to the prisoners’ increasing physical and mental health needs. His lawyer, Susan Hensler, said Friday that Hadi al-Iraqi was recently diagnosed with “severe osteoporosis” that likely contributed to problems in his most recent operation, in November. Doctors inserted metal inside his back, but the device slipped and screws became loose, she said. Navy doctors plan to bring a team to the base this year for another surgery, using bigger screws.
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