Question 31 (part 2) · LEK · Conventions and declarations
If doctor employed in prison may, according to principles of WMA Declaration of Tokyo (Taiwan, October, 2016), carry out artificial feeding of competent prisoner, who is on hunger strike and is aware of health consequences of refusing food ingestion?
- A. yes, because prison officers are responsible for protecting the health and life of prisoners.
- B. yes, because the prisoner cannot refuse eating in order to extort certain decision or action.
- C. no, because artificial feeding without indications could be inhuman and humiliating.
- D. yes, because WMA Declaration of Tokyo allows medical intervention if it’s necessary for completing the imprisonment.
- E. no, because forced artificial feeding is not a form of prisoner’s treatment.
Hint
The WMA declarations on prisoners and hunger strikers rest on respect for the decisions of a competent person.
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