9.5. Healthcare institutions has been provided. The absence of the patient’s information and the lack of the patient admission request form (signed by at least the guardian) cause an impropriety in relation to the right to human dignity proclaimed in Article II of the Fundamental Law. Some patients complained that they were not getting sufficient quantities of food. The staff was familiar with this issue as a 2017 internal audit report had already concluded that the food provided by the hospital was insufficient. The members of the staff remarked that the patients of the psychiatric ward could barely ever count on getting supplementary food from their relatives. The patients’ sense of hunger is aggravated by the fact that meals are distributed only three times a day, and morning snacks and afternoon snacks are handed out together with the main meals. Psychiatric patients may feel confused, and disoriented in time, thus they cannot be expected to ration the food they have received. If patients with a psychiatric condition are also affected by diabetes, the fact that food is distributed to them three times a day poses a danger also for their state of health. It is dubious whether patients can enforce their right to complain if the patients’ rights representative does not regularly go to see the patients of the department that the patients themselves are not allowed to leave. In relation to the conclusions of the visit, I made 14 recommendations. I asked the Minister of Human Capacities to consider that the patients’ rights representative be obliged to hold consulting hours at regular intervals in departments providing in-patient care that patients may not leave at their will. With a view to that, I proposed supplementing Section 9(1) of Government Decree 381/ 2016. (XII. 2.) Korm. on the Integrated Legal Services Office. In my recommendations addressed to the Minister of Human Capacities and to the Director General of the National Healthcare Curtain hugger crafted by the psychiatric patients in the activity room 95

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