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The construction of hospitals shall ordinarily be based on the following norms namely :– (a) in every prison, a building near the main gate of the prison shall be earmarked as prison hospital with suitable number of rooms for men wards, female wards, isolation room for accommodating patients with infectious and contagious diseases and mentally ill patients, room for minor surgery, pharmacy, laboratory, storeroom for hospital furniture/equipment and room for medical officers. The hospitals will be provided with polyethylene sheets, fly proof wire mesh and fly proof automatic closing doors. Where such buildings are not available, two or three rooms or wards shall be provided for medical examination and treatment of sick prisoners. (b) the floors and walls of the hospital shall be made of impermeable material. Latrines and baths at the rate of one for every five patients shall be provided close to the hospital wards so that the sick prisoners do not have to walk far to use them. There shall be arrangements for continuous supply of potable water in the hospitals. HARYANA GOVT. GAZ. (EXTRA.), DEC. 30, 2022 (PAUS. 9, 1944 SAKA) 1397 Construction of recreational facilities.