The possibility for the NMPT representatives to visit the Gostynin Centre43 The Commissioner requested the Minister of Health to take steps to make it possible for the NMPT representatives, within their mandate, to speak to the patients and staff members of the Gostynin Centre via Skype or another remote communicator through which audio and video connections can be established44. • THEMATIC REPORT45 The NMPT published a thematic report on the situation of juveniles with mental or intellectual disabilities, held in isolation places. The document contains conclusions and recommendations developed as a result of the visits of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture to rehabilitation facilities and psychiatric wards for children and adolescents. The Commissioner for Human Rights and the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture expressed their deep concern about the situation of children and adolescents who are mentally ill or have mental disorders. Psychiatric care for children in psychiatric wards, especially forensic ones, is very poor. Children staying in care facilities or rehabilitation centres, who are often deprived of attention of their relatives, require special care. The situation diagnosed and described in the report, in the opinion of the CHR and the NMPT, brings consequences in the form of inhuman or degrading treatment of children in psychiatric wards, in particular in forensic psychiatry wards. OTHER ACTIVITIES RELATED TO THE PANDEMIC In view of the spread of the coronavirus in Poland, the Commissioner for Human Rights, in his role of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture, called on the authorities responsible for the operation of individual types of detention places46 to provide information on their preparations for the risk of the epidemic. He also requested the Chief Sanitary Inspector to consider drawing up recommendations on counteracting the spread of the coronavirus in places where people are deprived of their liberty. 43 General intervention letter of the CHR to the Minister of Health, of 10 July 2020, no. KMP. 574.2.2020. More information on the lack of the NMPT’s possibility to visit the centre can be found in the chapter "Difficulties in the implementation of the NMPT mandate" and in the chapter "National Centre for the Prevention of Dissocial Behaviours in Gostynin". 44 45 See: https://www.rpo.gov.pl/pl/content/nieletni-z-niepelnosprawnoscia-psychiczna-i-intelektualna-wmiejscach-izolacji-raport-kmpt 46 Letters with specific questions regarding the matter were sent to the Ministers of: Labour, Family and Social Policy; National Education; Health; Justice, and to the Commanders in Chief of: the Border Guard; the Police; the Military Police; and to the Director General of the Prison Service. 36