Psychiatric hospitals The representatives of the NPM established that two hospitals did not provide appropriate sanitary facilities to patients, i.e. one of them287 had an insufficient number of sanitary facilities (e.g. the ward for 60 patients had only 2 showers for women), while the other288 had bathrooms for women and men at the same time in one of the wards. In some establishments, rooms designated for occupational therapy are too small289 or simply non-existent290. Some hospitals291 do not have isolation rooms and in one of the visited establishments there was no separate admission room292. Some establishments were not adapted to the needs of persons with reduced mobility293, and the related facilities in the establishments that had them were no sufficient to consider these establishments to be fully adjusted to the needs of persons with reduced mobility or other types of disability (e.g. blind persons). As regards food, the visiting team received several complaints from the patients about the monotony of the menu, taste or size of meals. The most alarming report received during the visits was the information that some patients did not receive full meals in one establishment294 due to the lack of the adequate number of portions. 10.  Right to religious practices Although the patients did not complain much about the lack of possibility to practice their religion during their stay in hospital, the employees of the Mechanism are of the opinion that the detained patients’ right to religious practice is not fully respected in all establishments. The representatives of the NPM found that in two establishments295 the patients who did not receive the consent for leaving Voivodeship Psychiatric Hospital in Olsztyn. Public Health Care Centre in Łuków. 289 Autonomous Public Voivodeship Hospital in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Voivodeship Hospital for Neurotic and Psychiatric Patients in Lubiąż. 290 Dr Józef Babiński Specialist Psychiatric Hospital Health Care Centre in Łódź. 291 Voivodeship Psychiatric Hospital in Olsztyn, Voivodeship Hospital for Neurotic and Psychiatric Patients in Lubiąż. 292 Autonomous Public Voivodeship Hospital in Gorzów Wielkopolski. 293 Voivodeship Hospital for Neurotic and Psychiatric Patients in Suchowola, Public Health Care Centre in Łuków. 294 Voivodeship Hospital for Neurotic and Psychiatric Patients in Lubiąż. 295 Voivodeship Psychiatric Hospital in Olsztyn, Autonomous Public Voivodeship Hospital in Gorzów Wielkopolski. 287 288 105