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Cases of repatriation and accommodation
    ARTICLE 110

    The following shall be repatriated direct:

    (1) Incurably wounded and sick whose mental or physical fitness seems to have been gravely diminished.

    (2) Wounded and sick who, according to medical opinion, are not likely to recover within one year, whose condition requires treatment and whose mental or physical fitness seems to have been gravely diminished.

    (3) Wounded and sick who have recovered, but whose mental or physical fitness seems to have been gravely and permanently diminished.

    The following may be accommodated in a neutral country:

    (1) Wounded and sick whose recovery may be expected within one year of the date of the wound or the beginning of the illness, if treatment in a neutral country might increase the prospects of a more certain and speedy recovery.

    (2) Prisoners of war whose mental or physical health, according to medical opinion, is seriously threatened by continued captivity, but whose accommodation in a neutral country might remove such a threat.

    The conditions which prisoners of war accommodated in a neutral country must fulfil in order to permit their repatriation shall be fixed, as shall likewise their status, by agreement between the Powers concerned. In general, prisoners of war who have been accommodated in a neutral country, and who belong to the following categories, should be repatriated:

    (1) those whose state of health has deteriorated so as to fulfil the conditions laid down for direct repatriation;

    (2) those whose mental or physical powers remain, even after treatment, considerably impaired.

    If no special agreements are concluded between the Parties to the conflict concerned, to determine the cases of disablement or sickness entailing direct repatriation or accommodation in a neutral country, such cases shall be settled in accordance with the principles laid down in the Model Agreement concerning direct repatriation and accommodation in neutral countries of wounded and sick prisoners of war and in the Regulations concerning Mixed Medical Commissions annexed to the present Convention.


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