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administration of medical treatment that is, about the consent to it. In this respect, the regulations need to be enhanced so as to ensure more effective protection of these persons when
the medical or scientific testing are applied.
GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ELIMINATION OF SHORTCOMINGS
The Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs needs to, in coordination with other competent authorities, conduct the systemic activities to ensure
the deinstitutionalization and/or providing of conditions to offer care and support
to persons with intellectual and mental disorders (and their families) in the local
community.
Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs should take actions from
their field of competence to provide appropriate regulation of terms and conditions
and the procedure for limiting the freedom of movement and physical restraint for
beneficiaries of home type institutions for social protection.
Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs should adopt the Rulebook to regulate the issue of providing items for personal needs of inmates placed
in homes.
Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs should, in cooperation
with relevant authorities, develop a Protocol on acting in the event of an unexpected
(sudden) death of beneficiaries placed in homes.
Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs should take action to
ensure hiring of the sufficient number of medical, nursery and other staff and enable
the provision of an enhanced level of social welfare services.
6.6.
Treatment of refugees / migrants and overview of the refugee crisis
In cooperation with the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and with the support of UNHCR, 52
thematic visits were made, as a follow-up of acting of competent authorities towards refugees
and migrants transiting the Republic of Serbia. Visits were made to the Asylum Centres in Krnjača,
Bogovađa, Tutin and Sjenica, Reception Centres in Subotica, Sombor, Šid Principovac, Adaševci,
Bujanovac and Preševo, Reception Centre for foreigners in Padinska Skela, Police Station in Vršac,
Police Administrations in Belgrade, Niš, Leskovac, Novi Pazar and Vranje, Regional Centres of
Border Police at the BCPs with Hungary, Romania – North, Bulgaria and Macedonia, Social Welfare Centre in Preševo, social protection institutions offering services of home accommodation to
minors in Subotica, Belgrade and Niš, Institutions for enforcement of criminal sanctions in Vranje
and Sombor and informal places of gathering of migrants along the BCPs in Horgoš and Kelebija
and at several locations in Belgrade. The reports addressed to competent authorities included
72 recommendations for eliminating of identified deficiencies: 41 recommendations were acted
upon, 10 were not while acting upon 21 recommendations require further observation.
Bearing in mind that Hungary and Croatia fortified their control at points of entry to their
territory, in order to establish the control over the border with Bulgaria and Macedonia and
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