carried out with a World Bank Loan. After the construction works are completed, the issue of the transfer of the Shaki Mental Dispensary to one of the buildings of the central hospital will be addressed. Several proposals and recommendations were made in respect of the cases revealed during the visit conducted to the Gandja City Mental Dispensary by the Commissioner. And later a follow-up visit was conducted to the establishment concerned to check the status of the implementation of the submitted recommendations and the situation was investigated. It has been discovered that the sanitary facilities in the women’s unit of the hospital have been renovated at a high level with the joint support of an international humanitarian organization and the MH, and the hospital has been provided with 18 new beds, 40 mattresses, 40 sets of sheet, 20 hand towels, 60 warm blankets by the MH. It has been determined that the heating system of the second unit is under reconstruction and repair works are being continued. Visits and follow-up visits have been undertaken to the Gazakh InterDistrict Mental Hospital as well. The status of the implementation of the Commissioner’s instructions and recommendations in the establishment concerned has been examined and it has been determined that at the expense of the internal resources of the hospital certain works have been performed to improve the general conditions in the hospital, namely, some laying work has been performed in the lobby of the kitchen, the illumination system has been changed, corridors and wards, as well as ceilings have been painted, 6 doors and 7 windows have been replaced with new ones, the stairs connecting the first and second floors have been provided with a handrail, floors have been covered with ceramic tiles, the cover of ceilings has been renewed and illuminators have been installed. The most part of the roof of the hospital has been repaired and covered with new slates. It has been informed that it is planned to start the renovations of the second unit after the repair works of the first unit end. As a result of the visit conducted to Clinic Psychiatric Hospital No.2 several deficiencies and shortcomings have been detected. As such, though the norms in force provide for patients to be taken out for walking once a day, patients are held indoors as the hospital does not have a yard. In some wards not every patient is provided with a cupboard to keep his/her personal 76