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Visits, Follow-ups and Results in 2020
Visits, Follow-ups
and Results in 2020
In spring 2020, we decided to suspend all visits. Work relating to visits was
nevertheless continued throughout the year. Before the pandemic caused
a lockdown, we had already completed five visits, and during the year,
three r eports were published based on these visits. In the autumn, five
visits were conducted within two new sectors. We also followed up twelve
institutions visited in 2018 and 2019.
VISITS IN 2020
During 2020, visits were conducted to ten insti
tutions.1 The number of visits was somewhat
reduced due to the pandemic.
In January and February 2020, the Ombudsman’s
NPM visited a long-term section and an emergency
section at the child welfare institution Olivia
Solhaugen in Hadeland, two child and adolescent
psychiatry units at St. Olav’s hospital, under the
children and adolescent psychiatric clinic, Lian, and
a child and adolescent psychiatry ward at Levanger
Hospital.
In the autumn, we conducted visits to two care
homes for elderly, Høyås residential and reha
bilitation centre in Nedre Follo municipality and
Åsgårdstrand care home in Horten municipality.
At Høyås, we visited a section for persons with
dementia with thirty one beds and at Åsgårdstrand
care home we visited three wards with twenty six
residents in total.2
We also conducted three visits to three shared
housing facilities for persons with intellectual
disabilities in Drammen municipality.
After each visit, the Ombudsman publishes a report
that presents findings and recommendations to
prevent torture, inhuman and degrading treatment.
Below are summaries from the visit reports
published after the visits conducted in the spring
of 2020. Reports from visits carried out during
autumn will be published in 2021.
1
In regard to visits to institutions that had sections, subunits or accommodation units that in reality functioned as differing
units, the findings will often be collated into one report. This allows us to analyse findings related to management, and ensures
anonymity for those we have spoken to. The 10 visits in 2020 will therefore result in six visit reports.
2
Wards 1a, 1b and 2d.
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