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To ask Her Majesty's Government whether immigration detainees who are pregnant are provided with dietary supplements. [HL5897]
Pregnant women in detention have access to all appropriate services relating to pregnancy, confinement and the post-natal period, including the provision of adequate nutrition during pregnancy and lactation. These services are delivered in accordance with the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) Guidelines on Maternal and Child Nutrition and the Department of Health's Child Health Promotion strategy.
Pregnant women in detention are seen and reviewed by registered midwives from the community and are offered antenatal classes and scans at the same stages as they would be offered in the community. All women who are intending to get pregnant or are at less than 12 weeks gestation are offered folic acid supplements. All pregnant women at any stage of the pregnancy, or who are breast feeding, are routinely offered Vitamin D and also receive extra fruit and an additional fresh milk allowance.
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To ask Her Majesty's Government whether prophylactic medicines are offered sufficiently in advance to detainees about to be deported to malarial countries. [HL5901]
UK Border Agency guidance concerning the offer of prophylactic medicines to detainees about to be removed to malarial countries is in place and available to healthcare staff in removal centres.
The guidance, which is based on advice from the Health Protection Agency's Advisory Committee on Malarial Prevention and is currently under review in liaison with the Department of Health, requires prophylactic medicines to be offered to detainees, subject to medical advice, and time allowed for them to take effect before their removal from the UK.