Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION..............................................................................................................10
1 OVERVIEW OF THE NATIOAL PREVENTIVE MECHANISM........................................12
1.1
Mandate ............................................................................................................12
1.2
Exercising the mandate during the pandemic..................................................13
1.3
Monitoring and control visits in numbers........................................................15
1.4
Budget................................................................................................................18
1.5
Human Resources..............................................................................................18
1.5.1
Personnel ............................................................................................18
1.5.2
The Commissions................................................................................19
1.5.3
Human Rights Advisory Council.........................................................19
1.6
International cooperation ................................................................................19
1.7
Report of the Human Rights Advisory Council ................................................22
2 FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS......................................................................25
2.1
2.2
2.3
Retirement and nursing homes.........................................................................25
2.1.1
Introduction.........................................................................................25
2.1.2
Online contact and telephone interviews ..........................................27
2.1.3
Requirements of COVID-19 prevention concepts from a
human rights perspective....................................................................30
2.1.4
Precautionary infection prevention through deprivation
of liberty impermissible.......................................................................33
2.1.5
Strict visiting rules...............................................................................36
2.1.6
„First lane“ test strategies for care facilities........................................41
2.1.7
Positive observations ..........................................................................43
Hospitals and psychiatric institutions and facilities.........................................44
2.2.1
Introcution...........................................................................................44
2.2.2
Register for documenting measures that restrict freedom..................46
2.2.3
Dealing with COVID-19 measures......................................................49
2.2.4
Child and adolescent psychiatric care ...............................................51
2.2.5
Therapeutic design of hospital areas..................................................55
2.2.6
Lack of qualified staff..........................................................................59
2.2.7
Long hospitalisation without medical need.......................................61
Child and youth welfare facilities.....................................................................63
2.3.1
Introduction.........................................................................................63
2.3.2
The facility as a protective shelter.......................................................67