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(medical technicians and psychiatrists) and work therapists, in order to raise the level of
the provision of health-care and improve activities related to the psycho-social
rehabilitation.
It is necessary to provide for continuous training of doctors and other staff in prohibition
of torture, and particularly in doctors’ treatment in line with the Istanbul Protocol.
6.5.
Detention of persons in the social welfare homes
In the course of 2015, the NPM conducted visits to 3 social welfare institutions homes, in order
to monitor the status of beneficiaries placed there. Two reports on the visit to these institutions
in 2015 were composed and one report100 on the visit conducted in 2014. In these reports on the
visits, the competent authorities were issued 20 recommendations. Out of this number, the
competent authorities complied with 13 recommendations, failed to comply with 1
recommendation, and regarding the remaining 6 recommendations, their implementation shall
be monitored.
In the course of the reporting period, the controlling visit was carried out to the Home
“Veternik” and a Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe was there as well.
The aim of the visit was to make follow-up of the compliance with previously issued
recommendation, as well as to show to the Commissioner the accommodation conditions and
treatment of beneficiaries. It was found on that occasions that recommendations regarding
displacement of persons with intellectual and mental disorders from the Home “Veternik”
were not complied with, neither were complied with those recommendations regarding
provision of adequate protection and support to their full inclusion into a community nor those
recommendations regarding the number of beneficiaries in the Home in line with the limit set
under the regulations.
NPM, in its Report for the year of 2014, in the Chapter 6.5. “Detention of persons in the social
protection institutions“, indicated to the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social
Affairs and the Provincial Secretariat for Health, Social Policy and Demography all deficiencies
in the operations observed in the Home “Veternik” and the need to displace most of
beneficiaries from the Home in the course of two coming years; provision of supports and/or
accommodations within a community, as well as the reduction of the capacities of the home
type to no more than 50 beneficiaries, if the children are to be placed there, or 100 beneficiaries
if the beneficiaries are adult persons, as envisaged under the applicable regulations and
standards.
Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs sent their comments to the
aforementioned statement from the NPM Report for the year of 2014101. The Ministry
deliberated upon the NPM findings composed in line with the visits to the social protection
institutions and inter alia, focused on the current situation in the Home “Veternik” making
comparison with the year 2013 when the NPM had conducted its first visit to the Home. In line
with the Ministry’s explanation, in the period between 2013 and 2015, social protection
inspectors from the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs conducted six
supervision visits to the Home “Veternik” so as to oversee the number of beneficiaries placed
there and they issued orders that Home and the competent centres for social work review their
plans for protection of beneficiaries who did not fall under the group of mentally impaired
beneficiaries of the Home. In the course of the last inspection supervision made to the Home,
Report on the visit to Gerontological Centre in Šabac and the responses of the competent authorities thereto are
available at:
http://www.zastitnik.rs/index.php/lang-sr/izvestaji/posebnii-izvestaji/4202-2015-07-01-12-27-58
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Report of the NPM for the year of 2014 and the responses of the Ministry are available at:
http://Protector
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Citizens.npm.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=528%3A2013&catid=113%3A2015-12-14-12-11-29&Itemid=117&lang=sr
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