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Article 30 - Medical Attention

from Chapter III - Hygiene and Medical Attention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2021

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Summary

Article 30 elaborates on the medical attention that prisoners of warare entitled to receive. It specifies a number of measures the DetainingPower must take to fulfil its general obligation under Article 15 toprovide for the maintenance of prisoners of war, including the medicalattention required by their state of health.

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Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention
Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
 , pp. 807 - 827
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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