Admission to a national health facility or to a health facility located in an inter-regional directorate of prison services other than the one in which the prisoner is imprisoned must be authorised by the Minister of Justice only in the case of a prisoner whose name has been entered on the list of particularly high-profile prisoners. Outside this category of inmates, the inter-regional director of prison services authorises hospitalisation in other cases. These authorisations are given after obtaining the opinion of a doctor working in the establishment.
In the case of remand prisoners, authorisation for hospitalisation requires the prior agreement of the magistrate hearing the case.
However, in urgent cases, hospitalisation may be carried out before the agreement of the competent judicial and administrative authorities has been received and reported to them immediately.