the kitchen located in 500 meters distance from the main building of the hospital is in compliance with standards. Hygienic rules are observed. The nutrition rule is trice per day and menu is changeable and various. During the visit to the kitchen it was revealed that no control is exercised over the quality of meals and there was no relevant registration journal to fix the results of inspection. The chief physician of the institution was recommended to immediately eliminate this insufficiency. Several shortcomings were revealed in the men’s department of the institution. Thus, lighting lamps did not work in some wards, dirty condition of mattresses, pillows coverings and sheets of some beds were witnessed. According to the CPT standards each patient should be provided with adequate lighting. The decoration of both patients' rooms and recreation areas should be on a sufficient level in order to give patients visual stimulation.32 Provision of hygiene and sanitary in the hospital should be displayed as one of the most important demands. 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 During the visit carried out in Guba Inter-Regional PsychoNeurological Rehabilitation Center the area, departments, observation rooms, wards, doctor’s room, leisure and meeting rooms, kitchen, canteen, bathroom, sanitarian unit, stocks, boiling – house and administrative building of the institutions were visited. During the visit it was revealed that the capital repair of the institution was concluded, however due to some technical problems the admission of ill persons was not carried out. From this standpoint this is a matter of importance to improve on – time provision of the institution with necessary food and medications, elimination of shortcomings found out after repair works as son as possible and bringing in compliance with sanitarian norms, to return the ill persons moved to the other hospitals in order to eliminate the overcrowding in them. At the end of the visit the administration of the institution was given relevant recommendations, the Commissioner urged to the Minister of Health for elimination of the abovementioned shortcomings. Within the frames of the activity of the Ombudsman as the National Preventive Mechanism the Commissioner and NPG members conducted visit upon the OPCAT demands to Sumgayit City Psychiatric Hospital. The 32 https://rm.coe.int/16806cd43e p.3 56