Can't Heal Prisoners

Bought this game during the steam sale and been having an absolute blast so far.

However, by far and away my biggest frustration so far is not being able to tend to the wounds of prisoners. I have a designated prisoner room with the sign and the prisoners stash. Every prisoner I get though ends up dying because even when forcing tend wounds on prisoners my colonists just ignore me. I even went as far as removing all other jobs from a colonist other than gaoler and tend and he still does anything but.

If anyone knows a way how I can keep my prisoners from dying and bleeding out that would be great. Even cheat codes that would allow me to remove the bleeding status.

Thanks

EDIT: After loading a prior save a few times one of my colonists (who was set to level 4 on job priority for tending and gaoler) randomly came in and tended my prisoner's wounds. The three colonists who had tending set to number one though ignored my prisoners each load though