When healthy and human care cannot be provided, beneficiaries must be
transferred to other centres. Supervision authorities are called to act quickly.
♦ the Croatian NPM issued recommendations pursuant to the visits: ● for the
Ministry of Social Policy and Youth, to increase the number of counselling and
assistance and home assistance services for elderly people; ● for the Croatian
Government to introduce financial support from the state for old persons with no
pension or other income.
► in the context of the difficulties met in the performance of visits by
NPM teams, we mention that, in 2017, the People’s Advocate Institution took note
of the situation presented in the media regarding the migrant inflow and decided to
perform a spot visit to the Regional Centre of Procedures and Accommodation for
Asylum Applicants of Timisoara. Pursuant to this visit, a Visit Report was drawn up
stipulating that the centre did not employ a psychologist, so that psychological
assistance was provided by a psychologist registered with the College of
Psychologists, employee of a non-governmental organization, who was not present
on the date of the visit.
Since only statistical data regarding psychological activity was obtained
within the visit, the People’s Advocate Institution recommended to regulate the
situation and provide the requested information on psychological assistance
(psychological assessments, identification of psychological needs, identification of
vulnerable persons, psychological intervention plans, performed psychological
counselling).
Regarding this recommendation, the General Inspectorate for Immigration
informed that:
“considering
the
confidentiality
of
the
requested
documents,
the
representative of the non-governmental organization informed that they are
willing to provide the above-mentioned documents based on a direct request
from the psychologist of the People’s Advocate Institution”.
Regarding this answer, the People’s Advocate Institution - the Field regarding
prevention of torture again asked the General Inspectorate for Immigration to review
the situation and to take legal action for regulation, i.e. during the visits, the
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