Epilepsy patient prisoner handcuffed to dentist chair 

A prisoner with epilepsy was handcuffed to dentist chair during a procedure in Bolu F-Type Prison. 

In a letter to Mezopotamya News Agency in Turkey, Ridvan Tanis said that he was handcuffed to a dentist chair during a dental procedure. Tanis broke his wrist when he had a seizure on the chair. 

“I had no choice but have the dental surgery in handcuffs. I had a seizure during the surgery last month and I broke my wrist. Because I was handcuffed” Tanis said. 

Tanis said that prisoners are left to die and denied medical services. He wrote about how the prison administration delays delivery of medications and don’t transfer ill prisoners to hospital on time. 

Tanis is 24 years old and suffering from epilepsy and asthma. The Institute of Forensic Medicine recently decided that Tanis can be kept in solitary confinement.