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MONITORING OF CUSTODIAL SETTINGS IN UKRAINE:
of Health Care. Therefore, medical assistance to mental patients is practically unavailable.
Psychiatric emergency teams are called only in cases of acute psychiatric disorders. For
instance, at Luhansk penal institution (No. 17) the medical unit has a seclusion room for
psychiatric patients but has not created proper conditions for provision of mental health
care; the said room was in an unsanitary state.
In Kyiv remand prison there are no special medicines or staff psychiatrist; the conditions for
mental health care were not created. The cells for the ill lack proper equipment, are dirty
and furnished with broken items; their walls are affected with mold. One of the cells has
practically no lighting or access to fresh air.
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