Separate facilities were prepared to provide for Guantanamo detainees' medical care.
A series of hospitals, dental clinics and psychiatric facilities have been prepared for Guantanamo detainees.
On June 7, 2010, the Washington Post reported, after obtaining the first official figures for capital costs of the Guantanamo camps to be made public, that the current hospital building cost $18.2 million USD, and a companion psychiatric facility cost 2.9 million USD.

Military spokesmen have routinely asserted that the detainees receive excellent medical care.
Documentary film director Michael Moore

Michael Moore

Michael Francis Moore is an American filmmaker, author, social critic and activist. He is the director and producer of Fahrenheit 9/11, which is the highest-grossing documentary of all time. His films Bowling for Columbine and Sicko also place in the top ten highest-grossing documentaries...

 used these claims as a central meme in his film Sicko

Sicko

Sicko is a 2007 documentary film by American filmmaker Michael Moore. The film investigates health care in the United States, focusing on its health insurance and the pharmaceutical industry. The movie compares the for-profit, non-universal U.S...

to argue that American citizens should receive better medical care.
Former detainees on the other hand have described medical care being withheld at the command of interrogators, in order to coerce detainees to confess.
Critics have described the use of the detainees' medical files by interrogators as a violation of medical ethics

Medical ethics

Medical ethics is a system of moral principles that apply values and judgments to the practice of medicine. As a scholarly discipline, medical ethics encompasses its practical application in clinical settings as well as work on its history, philosophy, theology, and sociology.-History:Historically,...

.
Critics have expressed concern that medical personnel violated their professional ethics by aiding in or failing to report the wounds inflicted during interrogations that used prohibited techniques.

Over eighty of the detainees' weights have fallen to life-threatening levels.
Many other detainees became obese on the camp's food.

Dental care

In 2009 Guantanamo captives' dental care is dispensed at two dental clinics on the Guantanamo Bay detention camps.
There is a dental clinic at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps hospital for the captives, and a second clinic in the maximum security Camp 6.
The camp's guards have a separate, third dental clinic served by the same dental staff of two dentists and four dental technicians.

The quality of the medical care and dental care, at Guantanamo, has been the subject of public disagreement.
After a visit to Guantanamo Congressional Representative William Lacy Clay

William Lacy Clay, Jr.

William Lacy Clay, Jr., usually known as Lacy Clay is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2001. He is a member of the Democratic Party....

 asserted that many Guantanamo captives received dental care for the first time in Guantanamo.
He asked "did Hitler and Pol Pot provide dental care to their prisoners before they killed them?"
In her book,
Kristine Huskey, one of the lawyers at the Center for Constitutional Rights

Center for Constitutional Rights

Al Odah v. United States:Al Odah is the latest in a series of habeas corpus petitions on behalf of people imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. The case challenges the Military Commissions system’s suitability as a habeas corpus substitute and the legality, in general, of detention at...

,
which was coordinating the captives' habeas corpus

Habeas corpus

is a writ, or legal action, through which a prisoner can be released from unlawful detention. The remedy can be sought by the prisoner or by another person coming to his aid. Habeas corpus originated in the English legal system, but it is now available in many nations...

 petitions, quoted a motion
the Center filed, that described the captives' dental care as inadequate.
After viewing Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington is a British historian, journalist, and film director.He has published three books, and been published in numerous publications.In 2009 Worthington was the co-director of a documentary about the Guantanamo detainees....

's film, Witness to Guantanamo, which compiled interviews with former captives, law professor Peter Jan Honigsberg wrote that the captives said dental care was dispensed at the discretion of the captives' interrogators.
He wrote "Some prisoners who expected to have cavities filled, had their teeth pulled instead."
Jane Mayer

Jane Mayer

Jane Mayer is an American investigative journalist who has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine since 1995...

, writing in The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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quoted Rob Kirsch, who represented six Bosnians, who also said dental care was routinely withheld by their interrogators.

In 2005 a single dentist, Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A lieutenant is a junior commissioned officer in many nations' armed forces. Typically, the rank of lieutenant in naval usage, while still a junior officer rank, is senior to the army rank...

 Jennifer Tharp, was responsible for treating all the captives and all the guards.
In 2005 captives arms and legs were shackled to the dental chair, and an armed guard was present at all times.

In a July 2009 interview Commander Kenneth Bell said that it took several times longer to treat captives as it did to treat guards, for similar dental procedures, because captives didn't understand why the dental procedures were in the interest of their health.
He said dental procedures were never performed on the captives, without their consent.

In April 2008 Adam M. Robinson Jr., the United States Navy

United States Navy

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's Surgeon General

Surgeon General of the United States Navy

The Surgeon General of the United States Navy is the senior-most medical corps officer in the United States Navy.- Establishment of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery :...

, reported that 6500 dental procedures had been administered to Guantanamo captives since 2002.

External links

• Neglect of Medical Evidence of Torture in Guantánamo Bay: A Case Series Published: April 26, 2011, Vincent Iacopino, Stephen N. Xenakis
• Report: Doctors ignored Guantanamo torture UPI, April 27, 2011