Hurt or Sick in Custody? You Still Have Medical Rights

The D.K. Basu guidelines specifically require a medical examination of a detained person at the time of arrest and every 48 hours during detention, by a doctor on an approved panel — and the person has the right to request this.

Any existing injury or medical condition should be recorded at intake. This record becomes important both for your ongoing care and for later documentation if there's ever a dispute about how you were treated.

If a medical request is refused, that refusal itself is worth remembering clearly (time, who refused it) — it's a specific, actionable violation of an established safeguard.