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by the victims arising from the violations established in this judgment. Therefore, having
verified the violations and the harm suffered by the victims, the Court considers it necessary
to order measures of rehabilitation in this case.
200. The Court assesses positively the actions taken by the State in order to provide
medical care to the victims in this case.292 To help repair this harm, the Court establishes
the State’s obligation to provide medical and psychological or psychiatric treatment to the
victims who request it, free of charge, immediately, adequately and effectively, in its
specialized health care institutions. The treatment must include the provision of the
medication they may need, also free of charge, based on the ailments of each person. In the
event that these services are not available through the State, it must turn to specialized
private or civil society institutions. Also, insofar as possible, the respective treatments must
be provided in the centers nearest to their places of residence293 in El Salvador for the time
necessary. When providing the psychological or psychiatric treatment, the particular
circumstances and needs of each victim must be taken into account so that individual, family
and collective treatment is provided to them, according to the agreement reached with each
victim, after individual evaluation.294 The victims who request this measure of reparation, or
their legal representatives, have six months from notification of this judgment to inform the
State of their intention to receive psychological or psychiatric treatment.295
201. The Court observes that, at the present time, Gregoria Herminia Contreras does not
live in El Salvador and, therefore, will not have access to Salvadoran public health services
in keeping with the provisions of this section. Therefore, the Court finds it pertinent to
determine that, if Gregoria Herminia Contreras does not wish to return to that country, El
Salvador must provide a sum to cover the expenses of her medical and psychological or
psychiatric treatment, as well as other related expenses, in her place of residence.296
Consequently, the Court orders that the State grant her once, within six months of the
beneficiary communicating her intention not to return to El Salvador, the sum of
US$7,500.00 (seven thousand five hundred United States dollars) for medical and
psychological or psychiatric treatment and any medicines and related expenses.
3.
Satisfaction
a)
Publication and dissemination of the judgment
202. The Commission asked the Court to order the State to publish the pertinent parts of
the judgment issued by the Court. The representatives asked the Court to order the State to
publish the judgment in both the official gazette and a national newspaper with wide
circulation, as well as on the web page of the search for disappeared children that the State
must create in compliance with the Court’s judgment in the case of the Serrano Cruz Sisters.
292
Cf. Monitoring report of the Office for the Right to Health of May 11, 2011 (evidence file, documents
handed over at the public hearing, folios 7659 to 7661).
293
Cf. Case the Dos Erres Massacre, supra note 150, para. 270; Case of Gomes Lund et al. (Guerrilha do
Araguaia), supra note 97, para. 268 and Case of Rosendo Cantú et al., supra note 137, para. 253.
294
Cf. Case of the 19 Tradesman v. Colombia. Merits, reparations and costs. Judgment of July 5, 2004. Series
C No. 109, para. 278; Case of Gomes Lund et al. (Guerrilha do Araguaia), supra note 97, para. 268 and Case of
Ibsen Cárdenas and Ibsen Peña, supra note 100, para. 253.
295
Cf. Case of Fernández Ortega et al., supra note 137, para. 252; Case of Gomes Lund et al. (Guerrilha do
Araguaia), supra note 97, para. 268 and Case of Rosendo Cantú et al., supra note 137, para. 253.
296
Cf. Case of Loayza Tamayo v. Peru. Reparations and costs. Judgment of November 27, 1998. Series C No.
42, paras. 106(a) and (m), and 129(d); Case of Cabrera García and Montiel Flores, supra note 272, para. 221, and
Case of Gomes Lund et al. (Guerrilha do Araguaia), supra note 97, para. 269.
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