This is why a recommendation was submitted to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Labour, Welfare and Social Insurance, through the relevant Services/Departments, urging them to immediately proceed to a thorough evaluation whether all these people with disabilities should remain hospitalised in the Psychiatric Hospital of Athalassa for treatment and monitoring purposes and, at the same time, to conduct an in-depth assessment of existing programmes, policies and options of desinstitutionalisation, so that they are appropriately redesigned and adapted in such a manner so as to create more opportunities for the deinstitutionalisation for as many people as possible. The Commissioner even recommended the drawing up of individual plans based on the needs, abilities and preferences of each individual, with the ultimate and essential goal being their systematic deinstitutionalisation and, in long-term, their independent living, away from any gaps that would favour regression. In this context and as it was stated, it is also important to take into account and address the impact that the institutionalisation itself has brought on these people. In addition, as the Commissioner has highlighted, central and primary concern in laying down the framework of policies, measures and administrative practices should be the enjoyment of the right to independent living in the sense of the effective integration of the individual into society in a way that allows the enjoyment of all his or her rights. The Stance was submitted to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Labour, Welfare and Social Insurance in order to take their own immediate measures, as well as to the Director of Mental Health Services, the Director of the Department for Social Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities, the Cyprus Confederation of Organisations of the Disabled and the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of People with a Mental Disability. 33