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amounting to degrading
treatment. Experience shows
that such patients need
socialization. Long stays in
the hospital alone will not
be of use even for healthy
person.
Most patients undergo
voluntary treatment according
to papers, but in fact, at the
relatives’ wish, being not
recognized incompetent.
Patients are not informed
about the procedure for
discharge. All respondents
do not know their diagnosis,
are not informed about
the treatment, about given
drugs, preparations, their
side effects, which is a direct
violation of Article 91 of
the Code “On the Health of
the People and the Health
System”. Most respondents
reported that their health
condition worsened after
hospitalization. Also the
NPM members demand to
provide patients with the
necessary hygienic supplies,
namely toilet paper, soap for
individual use, toothpaste
and brush, to ensure that
women are provided with
hygiene
products
(this
recommendation has been
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ignored from 2015).
In the children’s unit there
are no toilet bowls and urinals
for children. The sink is in the
bathroom. There is no soap
or towels. According to the
staff, the children go to the
toilet accompanied andthey
are given toilet paper, and
then they are escorted to the
bathroom for washing hands.
However, during our visit a
child aged about 4-5 years
old went alone to the toilet
unaccompanied,
without
toilet paper, and after the
toilet he did not go to the
bathroom and did not wash
his hands. Thus, the NPM
members found out that there
was only one tap and sink in
the unit, and only one toilet
for girls and one for boys.
The shower rooms are
dirty in the narcology unit.
The ceiling is covered with
mold. Unauthorized “smoking
rooms” are arranged in the
hallway of the shower room
and the male toilet. It has an
untidy look. It smells damp.
The ceiling is covered with
mold.
The signs on all of the
doors of units are only in the
state language. Also, stands
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