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relating to safety measures
are only in the state language,
which infringes the rights of
patients. The NPM members
in the Almaty region gave
detailed recommendations
to the management of the
Republican Scientific and
Practical Center for Mental
Health to eliminate violations.
Mental Health Center,
Almaty: In the medical case
histories of children from the
corrective children’s home
“Zhanuya” it was indicated
that they were hospitalized
for the purpose of behavior
correction. The number of
hospitalization of children for
correction amounts to 17, 13,
6 times. The NPM members
in Almaty region think
that the so-called “difficult
children” need real help, and
not chemical control which is
used in a psychiatric hospital.
Moreover, children’s homes
have a whole staff of educators,
psychologists,
speech
therapists,
defectologists
who are authorized to solve
the problem of children’s
behavior and find the true
cause of children’s problems.
While problems in the child’s
behavior are considered
CONSOLIDATED REPORT
not as a pedagogical task
entrusted
to
caregivers
and an institution, but as a
medical problem of the child
himself, the frequency of
hospitalization will continue.
It is necessary to stop this
practice.
When talking to patients,
many do not know when
they will be discharged, do
not know about their rights,
that in case of voluntary
admission they have the right
to be discharged on the basis
of their own application, i.e.,
they are dependent on the
will of relatives. Patients
are not provided with the
necessary hygienic supplies,
namely toilet paper, soap for
individual use, toothpaste
and brushes, women are not
provided with sanitary pads,
and pieces of sheets are given
out instead of sanitary pads.
Some patients told their
stories of hospitalization.We
are telling the most “ordinary”
one: “A nurse began to pull
me, then hospital attendants
and a nurse caught me and led
to another room. They began
to undress me violently, one
of the attendants was a man
(here a girl was crying), I was
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