Report of the Polish Commissioner for Human Rights on the Activities of the National Mechanism for the Prevention ... ment chamber] of 1 August 1997 adopting the Charter on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities220, as one of the elements implementing the provisions thereof. The NMPT considers the installation of emergency call systems in hospital wards to be one of the guarantees of patients’ safety. Recognizing the gap in the legislation, the Commissioner for Human Rights called on the Minister of Health221 to consider legislative action to introduce the requirement to install such systems. In his reply of 29.06.2017,222 Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Health informed the Commissioner that the National Consultant in Psychiatry and the National Consultant in Youth Psychiatry had been requested to present their opinions on the issue. When the opinions are issued, the Commissioner will be notified thereof. 6.3. Strengths and good practices During their visits to psychiatric hospitals and wards in 2016, representatives of the NMPT took note of practices which, in their opinion, deserve recognition as model solutions worth introducing in other places of detention. They include: • procedures of dealing with: patients – victims of sexual violence; persons affected by domestic violence223; and non-Polish speaking patients with whom communication needs to be ensured224; • wide-scope programme of therapeutic activities225; • patients’ free access to the hospital garden patio; supervision over therapeutic teams226; • use of a  separate room for visits paid to patients by their children; the objective is to protect the young visitors against possible negative experience of contacts with the other patients of the ward; free-of-charge access to the Internet via the hospital’s wi-fi network227; 222 223 224 225 226 227 220 221 74 The Sejm’s procedural form no. 1672 of 19 August 2013. CHR’s general intervention of 22.05.2017 to the Minister of Health, ref. no. KMP.574.4.2017. Reply of the Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Health of 29.06.2017, ref. no. OZO.073.21.2017/CP. Hospital in Morawica. Hospital in Głuchołazay. Hospitals in Pabianice and Morawica. Hospital in Kościerzyna. Hospital in Chrzanów.

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