Red Cross Expresses Alarm Over Detainee Health at Guantánamo Bay (www.nytimes.com)

Red Cross Expresses Alarm Over Detainee Health at Guantánamo Bay

This includes cases of medical emergencies.

At the same time, consideration must be given to adapting the infrastructure for the detainees evolving needs and disabilities, as well as the rules that govern their daily lives, he said.

Government employees, who were not authorized to be identified by name, have complained about air conditioning problems at the prison for detainees through the month of Ramadan, which is ending.

The military had no immediate comment on either the Red Cross concern or the air conditioning issue.

He has undergone six operations on his spine and back at Guantnamo Bay since 2017 by Navy medical teams who were airlifted to the base.

His lawyer, Susan Hensler, said Friday that Mr.

Navy doctors plan to bring a team to the base this year for another surgery, using bigger screws.

The Red Cross statement comes less than a month after a group of United Nations investigators made public a complaintthey had presented tothe United States on Jan. 11 about health care provisions at the prison, and for Mr.

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