experience. Provision of accommodation structures based on small groups is a crucial factor in preserving/restoring patients' dignity. The approach increasingly being adopted in the practice of some countries of allowing patients who so wish to have access to their room during the day are welcomed. In such circumstances the patient is no longer being obliged to remain assembled together with other patients in communal areas.31 At the end of the visit the administration of the hospital was given recommendations on further improvement of detention conditions, observing the diversity in menu for nutrition of patients. The Commissioner urged to the Minister of Health with regard the elimination of the abovementioned shortcomings. The NPG members held visit in Salyan Inter-Regional Psychiatric Hospital. The aim of the visit was evaluation of detention conditions, treatment, monitoring the status of implementation of recommendations put forward during the previous visits. The new building of the Salyan Inter-Regional Psychiatric Hospital was put into exploitation in 2013. It is two-floored and consists of one building. Male and female patients are kept in different floors. On the day of the visit 111 persons were kept in the institution, 57 of them were men and 54 – women. During the reviewed year no death or suicide cases occurred. The “Complaint Box of Patients” is installed in the entrance of the institution for the patients to enjoy their relevant rights. It was revealed that there was no natural gas supply of the institution, and there were problems in heating system provision, the wards were heated with pauses and only at night-times. These were linked by the administration of the institution with lack of diesel fuel for proper functioning of the heating engines, insufficient provision with means allocated for buying that fuel. It was also found out the insufficiencies in food and medication supply in the institution, during the visit the lack of adequate lighting, ventilation, the dirty condition of mattresses, pillow covers and sheets were witnessed. The water supply of the institution is normal. For using the water reserves, the water is given from source to cleaning reservoir and after to underground clean water reservoir. Straitjacket is used as a mean of force or other restraint measure against patients. The experience of placing in the seclusion room is applied. Vegetables and other garden plants are cultivated in a 1ha of land area belonging to the Psychiatric institution and these products are used in nutrition of patients. The employment is voluntarily here. The condition of 31 https://rm.coe.int/16806cd43ep.3. 55

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