The 2^nd Round table with training elements on Protocols for enhancing health care and human rights in closed environment brought together representatives of public health institutions and civil society. The group initially learned about six protocols covering health care issues most commonly encountered in the closed environment (medical ethics, efficient communication, dispensing therapy, transmissible diseases, suicide prevention, hunger strike, and drug users). The emphasis throughout this set of sequenced measures to be undertaken in custody is on the cooperation between the medical staff administering medical aid and prison staff supporting their work in closed environment.

The meeting brings on an additional value: it succeeded in proposing even more protocols than featured in the original handbook produced and published under the Action. Namely, steps and the level of cooperation between public health care staff and prison staff were defined in case of invasive diagnostic procedures, requiring extra vigilance in ensuring safety and wellbeing those around such patients, for example radiation treatments. These additionally drawn protocols will be fine-tuned with the existing operational procedures in prisons and disseminated at the forthcoming sessions.

The activity was developed under the EU/CoE Horizontal Facility for Western Balkans and Turkey Action in Bosnia and Herzegovina, entitled “Enhancing human rights of detained and sentenced persons”, is underway on 27-28 September 2017 in Teslic.