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
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