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
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