BOUAKE CAMP PENAL - 1995
Food distribution continued annually at the Grand Bassam Prison, near Abidjan, but the need at the Bouake Camp Penal, was even greater. Because of its remote location and the length of sentences served at this maximum security prison, conditions proved to be much worse than at the Abidjan prison and even more so than at the Grand Bassam facility, where the International Red Cross is not present.
Average daily caloric intake at the Bouake prison was around 750 per prisoner. Annual mortality rate averaged 18%. Aids and Tuberculosis were the two main causes of death in the prison. The prison was built to house 1500 inmates, but the prison population has fluctuated between 1900 and 2200 since 1994.
Our initial effort in that prison consisted in providing 3 tons of rice, furnishing the infirmary with much needed medication and supplies, and conduction a 3-day medical clinic with doctors and nurses from France and the U.S.
3 tons of rice for our first Bouake Prison intervention |
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