96 Doctors of the General Hospital in Subotica will conduct physical examination of persons deprived of their liberty, brought to the examination escorted by police officers. When there are indications that this person have suffered violence, a detailed physical examination will be carried out without exception, in order to identify and document bodily injuries and report any illegal deed to the competent authority. The medical documentation shall include the doctor‘s opinion on the cause-and-effect relationship between allegations of the injured person about the way in which the injuries were inflicted and the identified injuries. The Hospital will conduct the mechanical restraint measure, or the so-called fixation, fully in compliance with the regulations and established standards of the treatment of persons with mental disorders, and in particular: · measure of mechanical restraint against the beneficiary will be used exceptionally, when this is the only means to prevent the beneficiary to seriously harm his/her own life and safety and lives of other persons; · before applying a measure of mechanical restraint, it is necessary to consider and try to use a less restrictive measure; · easure of mechanical restraint of a beneficiary will be applied using medical interventions that will allow the period of application of measures to be as short as possible; · measure of mechanical restraint of the patient will be conducted in a safe place and in a way that that is least threatening for the life and health of the patient; · measure of mechanical restraint of the beneficiary will be carried out with designated means (straps, etc.) to ensure that the intervention is administered in a way that is least threatening for the life and health of the patient; · the psychiatrist will decide about the application of the mechanical restraint measure and duration of such restraint, taking care that the period of application is as short as possible, in accordance with the applicable standards and rules of the medical profession; · where in the absence of a psychiatrist, another healthcare practitioner performs a mechanical restraint of a patient as deemed necessary and urgent at the given moment, he is obliged to immediately inform the closest psychiatrist, who is obliged to approach the beneficiary without delay and assess whether the applied mechanical restraint is justified, as well as whether it is still necessary, and accordingly, make the appropriate decision; · psychiatrist who made the decision to apply the measure of a mechanical restraint is obliged to, as long as the respective measure is applied, as well as within the appropriate period after the suspension of the measure, make periodical visits of the beneficiary subjected to such measure and monitor his health condition with due care; · when in the course of the measure of mechanical restraint the psychiatrist determines that the beneficiary subjected to the measure no longer poses a threat to himself or other persons, the beneficiary will be released from such measure, without delay;

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