Constitution, including the statutory form of the restriction. Currently, there
are no provisions that would regulate this issue and sometimes it happens that
cameras are installed in corridors, common rooms or even rooms of residents.
Psychiatric hospitals
In 2018 the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture inspected
3 hospitals and 1 psychiatric ward80.
What was of particular interest to inspectors during inspection visits to
those facilities was the observance of rights of adult persons who were placed
there against their will, i.e. admitted without their consent as well as those who
expressed their consent for admission to the facility but withdrew it in the
course of their stay there.
The visit to the Psychiatric Hospital of the Independent State Healthcare
Facility in Węgorzewo was a re-inspection81.
Systemic problems
Monitoring in psychiatric hospitals
What is still missing in the legislation are regulations concerning CCTV
monitoring in rooms other that those serving the purpose of patient’s isolation82.
For this reason, in 2018 the Commissioner for Human Rights repeated his
request to the Minister of Health to submit, as part of his legislative initiative,
draft provisions regulating the use of CCTV monitoring in hospitals83.
Voivodeship Psychiatric Hospital in Złotoryja (BPW.574.1.2018); Psychiatric Hospital of
the Independent State Healthcare Facility in Toszek (BPK.574.1.2018); Clinical Psychiatric Ward of the Wola Mental Health Centre in Anna Gostyńska Wola Hospital in Warsaw
(KMP.574.3.2018); Psychiatric Hospital of the Independent State Healthcare Facility in Węgorzewo (KMP.574.5.2014).
81
Findings from that repeated control in the facility are described in the chapter entitled Re-inspections
82
Cf.: Article 18e(2) of the Act of 19 August 1994 on the protection of mental health (Dz.U. of
2018, item 1878; consolidated text).
83
General Intervention of the CHR to the Minister of Health of 5 October 2018, KMP.574.8.2015.
80
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