10.3. The authorities’ responses to the major measures taken by the NPM for the dental screening of the residents as soon as possible. I was informed by the head of the Social Institution that he had prepared the residents’ dental screening plan and in 2018, he would provide all the residents with the opportunity to take part in dental screening. After the first visit, the outdoor activities and excursions became less frequent, and the residents had not gone out at all for more than six months. During the interviews with the residents, it became clear that they were compelled to spend their whole day in the area of the Social Institution. The missed outdoor activities, in lack of available opportunities, and related to this, the narrowing of the living space of the residents caused an impropriety concerning the right to human dignity. I highlighted, as early as in the report on the first visit, that with a view to preventing and resolving the tensions between the residents, rather than applying ad hoc sedative shots, it should be set as a goal that besides ensuring adequate personal space at the institution, the residents should be given the opportunity to take part in the highest possible number of such regular activities which would mean a way out of the monotony of everyday life at the institution. Despite my proposal, the number and variety of the activities that the residents could take part in significantly decreased, so I maintained my recommendations made in the report on the first visit in an unchanged form. I asked the maintainer and the head of the institution to provide colourful activities and outings for the residents. In his response, the Director General of the Hungarian Directorate-General for Social Affairs and Child Protection promised to provide the support necessary for organising high-standard leisure time activities and participating in the holiday system. I was informed by the head of the institution that he would endeavour to organise outdoor activities and assess the need of the residents for participating in common holidays. I called the attention of the Social Institution to that the Mother ’s Day celebration should be organised very cautiously and sensitively, because it has turned out from the interviews conducted with the residents that at the time of the holiday, the pain caused by loneliness and childlessness was also increasing. A mother, who visits her son living in the Social Institution every two weeks, was not able to attend the Mother ’s Day celebration because she was not aware that one was organised. The head of the institution promised to send written invitations to the relatives of the residents before the Mother ’s Day celebration. In my response, I proposed that before the Mother ’s Day celebration and other celebrations and events, it would make sense to display the date of such events on the notice board, so that the visitors were informed of these occasions too. Anyone walking in the corridor could look into the bathrooms through the eye-level transparent window panel on the doors of the bathrooms. The windows were only covered by curtains in the female bathroom, which were 123

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