5. The Committee found that the hospital section was well equipped and fairly well managed. At the time of the visit 58 sentenced offenders and 35 remand detainees were being hospitalised. Two wheel-chair bound sentenced offenders were permanently accommodated in this section. Inmates with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB) were admitted to an isolation ward. Some of the inmates hospitalised were ill enough not to pose a threat to society and could have been conditionally released to the care of a hospice or their families. Detaining someone who was wheelchair-bound or so ill he or she could not function was contrary to the principles of humane detention. The Committee acknowledges that the cost of hospice care and the fact that many of the offenders' families are so poor they are unable to care for their ill relatives, makes conditional release nearly impossible.