If a detainee falls under any of the following items, the director of an immigration detention center, etc. is to promptly provide medical treatment (including nutritional support measures; the same applies hereinafter in this Section and in Article 55-68, paragraph (1), item (v)) by a physician or dentist on staff or by a physician, etc. (meaning a physician or dentist; the same applies in the following Article and in Article 55-53, paragraph (5)) commissioned by the director of an immigration detention center, etc., and take other necessary medical measures; provided, however, that in the case where the detainee falls under item (i), if there is no risk of serious harm to the detainee's mind or body or of the detainee infecting others with the disease, this applies only if it is not against the detainee's will:
入国者収容所長等は、被収容者が次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、速やかに、医師等職員又は入国者収容所長等が委嘱する医師等（医師又は歯科医師をいう。次条及び第五十五条の五十三第五項において同じ。）による診療（栄養補給の処置を含む。以下この節及び第五十五条の六十八第一項第五号において同じ。）を行い、その他必要な医療上の措置をとるものとする。ただし、第一号に該当する場合において、その者の心身に著しい障害が生ずるおそれ又は他人にその疾病を感染させるおそれがないときは、その者の意思に反しない場合に限る。
if the detainee is injured or ill, or is suspected of being so;
負傷し、若しくは疾病にかかつているとき、又はこれらの疑いがあるとき。
if, in the case where the detainee does not take food or drink, there is a risk of serious harm to the detainee's mind or body.
飲食物を摂取しない場合において、その心身に著しい障害が生ずるおそれがあるとき。
In the case where the director of the immigration detention center, etc. provides medical treatment pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the director may, as necessary, have the detainee visit a hospital or clinic outside the immigration detention center, etc. as an outpatient, and, if unavoidable, have the detainee admitted to a hospital or clinic outside the immigration detention center, etc.
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immigration detention center, etc.machine translation
「入国者収容所等」
An immigration detention center, or a detention facility set up at a regional immigration services bureau under Article 55-3(1).
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (xvi)· applies throughout the law
detaineemachine translation
「被収容者」
A person held in an immigration detention center or other immigration detention facility.
Defined inArticle 55-4, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter and in Article 71-6
director of an immigration detention center, etc.machine translation
「入国者収容所長等」
The director of an immigration detention center or the director of a regional immigration services bureau.
Short name set inArticle 55-5, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter and in Chapter 8
physician or dentist on staffmachine translation
「医師等職員」
A physician or dentist employed at an immigration detention center or a Regional Immigration Services Bureau.
Defined inArticle 55-17, paragraph (1)· applies only in this chapter
physician, etc.machine translation
「医師等」
In Articles 55-42 and 55-43 and Article 55-53, paragraph (5), a physician or a dentist (医師又は歯科医師) — used there for the doctors, other than those on the facility's staff, who may treat a detainee (被収容者).
Defined inArticle 55-42, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 55-43; and Article 55-53, paragraph (5)