Report of the Human Rights Defender on the activities of the National Preventive Mechanism in Poland in 2014 2012 determining the full-time employment rate of therapeutic and care teams’ personnel, because the team included service employees (including laundresses, drivers). In certain visited SCCs, the representatives of the NPM paid attention also to feminisation of care and treatment personnel191. Assuming that the centres’ residents are also men, efforts should be made to increase the number of men in care personnel to fully respect the right of residents to privacy and intimacy. Many centres did not provide regular training for their personnel, especially on using coercive measures, giving first aid in health emergencies, preventing occupational burnout or solving interpersonal conflicts, carried out by qualified and experienced personnel in a relevant field192. The representatives of the Mechanism pointed out that not every establishment respected the obligation to provide their therapeutic and care team’s employees, at least once every two years, with training held by the director on the rights of SCC residents, therapy directions and methods of work with residents, which is set out in § 6(2) (4) of the Ordinance of the Minister of Labour and Social Policy of 23 August 2012193. 7. Health care The biggest reservations concerned the fact that residents were given medications hidden in food194. As a matter of fact, this practice may violate their right to know what medications they take and when. At the same time, this can lead to a situation where residents, who are given medications by deceit, refuse to take them when given openly as e.g. they may feel good and suffer no disorders due to medications regularly taken without their knowledge. On the other hand, cognitive abilities of some of them also call into question the degree of awareness about taken medications and their impact on health. In these circumstances, it is also necessary to make a choice between individual goods protected by law, i.e. to protect health of residents or respect their right to know what medications they take. Undoubtedly, this matter should be regulated by law. SCCs in: Bartoszyce, Bielsko-Biała, Łódź (No 4), Warsaw, Poznań, Siedlce, Pęcławice Górne, Słupsk, Gościeradów, Nowy Miszew, Płaza. 192 SCCs in: Warsaw, Pińczów, Wrocław (Kaletnicza St), Żyrardów, Częstochowa, Gościeradów, Nowy Miszew, Płaza, Ruda Pilczycka, Gdańsk, Lębork (No 2), Końskie and Zamość. 193 SCCs in: Częstochowa, Wrocław (Holy Family SCC). 194 SCCs in: Maków Podhalański and Zamość. 191 56