Ghavtadze v. Georgia

Information Note on the Court’s case-law No. 117March 2009Ghavtadze v. Georgia - 23204/07Judgment 3.3.2009 [Section II]Article 3Positive obligationsStructural inadequacy of medical care in prisons: violation Article 46Article 46-2Execution of judgmentStructural inadequacy of medical care in prisons: violation Facts: The applicant was arrested and remanded in custody in October 2006, and subsequently sentenced to imprisonment. He alleged that he had been in good health prior to his arrest, even if he had been taking drugs intravenously. He had subsequently been hospitalised three times (from 22 January to 10 February 2007, from 20 February to 31 March 2007 and again from 23 April 2007), when he had successively presented symptoms of acute viral hepatitis C, scabies and tuberculous pleurisy. According to a medical opinion given by a specialist in infectious liver diseases in May 2007, the …