ANNUAL REPORTOF UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS 144 Example CHAPTER 7 During a monitoring visit to the Plyskivskyi psychoneurological residential care facility in Vinnytsia oblast74, it was found that the institution is not equipped with a fire alarm system, while fire extinguishers are stored in a locked room and have not been regularly checked. The territory of the facility is effectively abandoned, and overgrown with weeds; there are unprotected trenches and open sewer pits; and the territory is cluttered with construction debris, with a broken fence and benches, and an unfenced transformer booth, which poses a potential threat to life and health of patients. The institution’s buildings also need urgent repair. In addition, the monitoring team found people who were illegally staying in the facility without proper documents. Following the Commissioner’s intervention, the police entered information into the URPTI in regard to criminal violations and initiated a pre-trial investigation in a criminal case under part one of Article 146 (illegal imprisonment) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. Some educational institutions are also failing to comply with the Fire Safety Rules for education institutions and institutions of the education system of Ukraine, approved by Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine Order 974 of 15 August 15 2016. The buildings of educational institutions are not equipped with fire alarm systems. Wooden elements in the attics of buildings are not treated with fire retardants, which provide group I fire protection efficiency. There is no protection against direct lightning strikes and the secondary impacts of lightning strikes. There are no fire extinguishers, as required under the Rules mentioned above (at the community-owned facility “Baturyn special boarding school of Chernihiv Oblast Council”75, community-owned facility “Lyman boarding school of I-II degrees of Odesa Oblast Council76). A number of other institutions are not equipped with a fire safety system (such as the community-owned facility “Pryvilne special boarding school of Bashtanka district of Mykolaiv oblast”77). In violation of the Fire Safety Rules, windows in some educational institutions are fitted with nonremoveable bars. Similar violations of the Fire Safety Rules were found in many social and health care facilities, posing a direct threat to the lives of those staying in these institutions. For example, in 2019, fires took the lives of people in the Odesa Psychiatric Hospital and Starobilsk Oblast Psychoneurological Residential Care Facility. 74 Report published at: www.ombudsman.gov.ua/ua/all-news/pr/antisan%D1%96tar%D1%96ya,-zhaxliv%D1%96-umovi-prozhivannya-ta-nenalezhne-medichne-obslugovuvannya-rezultati-mon%D1%96toringovogo-v%D1%96zitu-do-plisk%D1%96vskogo-psixonevrolog%D1%96chnogo-%D1%96nternatu-na-v%D1%96nnichchin%D1%96/. 75 Report published at: www.ombudsman.gov.ua/ua/all-news/pr/6519-sq-u-rezultati-reformuvannya-shkil-na-chernigivschini-pokraschilisya-umov/. 76 Report published at: www.ombudsman.gov.ua/ua/all-news/pr/u-limansk%D1%96j-specz%D1%96aln%D1%96j-zagalnoosv%D1%96tn% D1%96j-shkol%D1%96-%D1%96nternat%D1%96-na-odeshhin%D1%96-viyavleno-porushennya-prava-d%D1%96tej-na-rozvitok-osobistost%D1%96/. Report published at: www.ombudsman.gov.ua/ua/all-news/pr/25319-ai-u-privilnenskij-spetsializovanij-zagalnoosvitnij-shkoli-internati-na-m/. 77