The Public Defender's monitoring revealed cases of violations of the infrastructure and process necessary for the prevention and control of infection in several medical institutions. The Ombudsman, Levan Ioseliani, spoke about the results of the monitoring of infection prevention and control measures in a separate inpatient medical facility in Georgia at a working meeting held in the Parliament of Georgia.

According to the information disseminated by the office of the Public Defender, the members of the Committee on Human Rights Protection and Civil Integration and Health Protection and Social Affairs of the Parliament of Georgia, as well as the Minister of IDPs, Labor, Health and Social Protection and the First Deputy Minister, have seen the special report of the Public Defender.

"First Deputy Public Defender Tamar Gvaramadze spoke about the methodology of preparing the report and noted that the representatives of the Public Defender, together with an invited expert and a doctor-epidemiologist, in the second half of 2023 inspected 9 inpatient medical facilities operating in different municipalities of Georgia, evaluated a number of legislative and subordinate acts, analyzed international documents , studied the relevant information requested from authorized agencies.

The monitoring revealed cases of violations of infrastructure functioning and process necessary for infection prevention and control in several medical institutions.

At the discussion held after the presentation, they discussed the current situation in the medical institutions and the measures to be implemented to eliminate the deficiencies.

The report will be published in the near future and will be made available to the interested parties", - mentioned in the published information.