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Council member inquires about using tablets for medical appointments

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Council Member Mercedes Narcisse inquires about the possibility of using tablets for inmates to make medical appointments. Deputy Commissioner Nell McCarty explains that while there isn't a specific application for this purpose, inmates can use the tablets to call a direct hotline to speak with correctional health services.

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Mercedes Narcisse

0:41:16

Good morning, and thank you chair.

0:41:19

One of the things that I'm always talking about is about, the appointment.

0:41:23

So with the tablet, can they make appointment for let's say if they're not feeling good, they're not selling, they want to make an appointment, can they access the tablet to make an appointment, medical appointment?

Nell McCarty

0:41:37

At this time, there isn't, like, an application where they could just, open up an application and use that to make a medical appointment, but I do wanna highlight that correctional health services does have a direct hotline.

0:41:50

And so the fact that the tablet affords somebody the opportunity to make a phone call, if they are in their cell, they could make a phone call using that hotline, to speak with correctional health services.

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