It was also revealed that the patients of the Psychiatric Hospital were
involved into labor activities, pottery, weaving, painting experience were
also used for rehabilitation purposes.
At the end of the visit the discussions were held with the administration
of the institution, relevant recommendations were given with regard the
improvement of documentation work.
The NPG members carried out a visit upon the OPCAT demands in
Ganja City Psychiatric Hospital. On the visit day it was revealed that 91
male – patients were in the institution, however women department of the
hospital terminated its functioning and female patients were placed in the
Gazakh Regional Psychiatric Hospital.
During the visit the area, building, canteen and kitchen of the hospital
were visited, the conditions in wards and doctors’ rooms located in both of
two floors of the hospital were investigated.
It was revealed that the sanitarian unit and bathroom in the second floor
of the men’s department required capital repairing. Despite the applications
and complaints boxes were installed in corridors of the both floors, the
information about the rights of patients were installed not in the corridor
for patients to get acquainted with but in the rooms of the heads of
departments. In its turn, this can be evaluated as violation of demands of the
Article 12 of the UN Principles for Protection of Persons with Mental
Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care, of the principle “a
patient…shall be informed of all his or her rights in accordance with these
Principles and under domestic law”. The administration of the institution
was recommended to install the informational boards about the rights of the
patients in corridors where later could get acquainted with them. At the
same time it was revealed that due to overloading with work of institution’s
doctors, there was a need in provision of the hospital with additional
doctors and in increasing the means allocated for medication supply.
During the visit to the 2nd and 3rd departments of the hospital strong
smell, unsanitary condition in sanitarian unit and bathroom of those
departments, absence of TV set for leisure of patients were observed, it was
also revealed that the wards require capital repairing, the beds in wards
were not provided with threadbare, some were not provided with bedding
sets, clothes of some patients were dirty.
Despite the general condition in the hospital kitchen was evaluated as
normal, it was mentioned that the meal ration was repeating and menu was
not being changed. According to relevant standards on detention conditions
of patients in psychiatric institutions European Committee on Prevention of
Torture, Patients' food is another aspect of their living conditions. CPT is of
the opinion the food must be not only adequate from the standpoints of
quantity and quality, but also provided to patients under satisfactory
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