agresive way in which police officers brought the man into the station and in which the staff of the station took him into the room. During admission into the station, the patient was thrown on the floor, undressed, jerked, dragged into the room where he was left naked. According to NPM representatives, the behaviour seen in that film was a degrading treatment. The film provides grounds for assumption that some staff of the station are hostile towards patients. Answering, the Mayor of Chełm informed NPM that after disclosure of that case, the station’s Director punished the two staff responsible for that case with an admonition registered in their files. The management of the station was obligated to make each and every effort to avoid such cases in the future. The visitors recommend to give up the practice of forcible changing into disposable clothing if the detained is not agreeing to do that and his/her sanitaryhygienic status does not justify the must for such changing (recommendations made at Chełm, Szczecin, Rzeszów, Gliwice, Racula near Zielona Góra). Heads of all visited stations where it was obligatory to change patients into disposable clothing informed the Ombudsman they gave up that practice. e) Right to medical care services The Ordinance by the Minister of Health of 4 February 2004 on the methods of escorting, admitting and releasing intoxicated individuals and on the organisation of sobering-up stations or other similar stablishments created by a local government unit (Dz. U. of 2004, No. 20, item 192 as amended) § 4. 1. Each person escorted to the sobering station or centre shall be immediately subjected to medical examination. 2. A physician or a surgeon after having examined the escorted person, may state: 1) the lack of intoxication symptoms which would justify stay in the station or in the centre; 2) the need to provide ad hoc medical assistance which can be provided in the station or in the centre; 3) the need to perform hygenic and sanitary treatment, taking into consideration intoxication, as well as the lack of contraindications to stay in the station or in the centre; 4) occurance of medical indications to direct the patient to a hospital or to other unit od health care, taking into consideration intoxication as well as occurance of indications for hospitalisation. 3. If serious health disfunctions are determined or suspected in the person escorted to the station or to the centre, an ambulance service or rescue unit shall be immediately informed. § 18 point 1 paragraph 5 The station shall provide information about harmfulness of excessive drinking and encourage to start detoxification treatment. § 21.1. The station shall have a medical department, including a physician consulting room and a surgery, equipped with medical products as well as medical and diagnostic equipment, including certified equipment to measure the concentration of alcohol in the organism with the printing option. 3. 3. The list of medical products and the list of medical and diagnostic equipment that should be provided to the medical department is laid out in the annex to this ordinance. § 27 point 3 paragraph 2 The patient’s records referred to in paragraph 1 point 2, shall contain an opinion by the physician including: