45 Reduced mobility caused by the wheelchairs’ flat tires is not a consequence of being detained, and it is not the result of the patients’ state of health; it is the result of the Hospital’s failure to carry out the necessary renovation works; therefore, it causes an impropriety related to degrading treatment. 9.3. Women deprived of their liberty The NPM met women deprived of their liberty in the course of almost all visits. One of the women deprived of their liberty staying at the GRRC complained that, although she had had two abortions in her home country, instead of the requested gynecological examination while in asylum detention she had received only a fever reducer. Another woman was four and a half months pregnant according to the medical examination conducted upon reception. She felt aggrieved at not having been examined by a specialist irrespective of her explicit request. On the second day of her stay at the GRRC, having fainted, she was taken, under police escort, to an ambulatory ob/gyn clinic. Women placed in the Therapeutic House and the disability unit of the Platán Residential Home had to submit themselves to mandatory contraception in the form of injections or pills. A contraceptive device was implanted, without her knowledge, in a disabled woman deprived of her liberty wanting to get pregnant, with the approval of her guardian. Responding to my recommendations made in the report on the visit to the Therapeutic House, the Minister of Human Capacities promised to have the relevant legal regulation amended in a way that would regulate cases when there is a disagreement between a woman under guardianship and her guardian as far as intrauterine contraceptive devices, sterilization and abortion are concerned. The Minister of Human Capacities is going to consider the preparation of a regulation that would make it possible for disabled persons deprived of their liberty, living in residential institutions, to keep and, with appropriate help, take care of their children while residing in the institution. 9.4. Elderly persons deprived of their liberty The visiting delegations paid special regard to the situation of the elderly. For the purpose of performing the tasks of the NPM, the elderly are persons of or over 60 years of age.121 The elderly persons living in the Therapeutic House complained that they were staying in the institution not of their own accord but upon the request or insistence of their relatives. Some of them emphasized how much they missed their freedom. I was concerned that the institution had placed some unsteady elderly persons in cage beds, some of which could not be opened from the inside. The environment within the institution was expressly unstimulating; the elderly patients spent their days in their beds or wandering aimlessly around the corridors, occasionally talking to their roommates. Elderly patients become more easily victims of aggression in a place of detention. During the visit to the Merényi Hospital, the visiting delegation was informed that a young male patient had physically abused an elderly lady who, having confused the sickroom, had lied down in the young man’s bed. Almost 30% of the patients in the Closed Psychiatric Ward of the Merényi Hospital were elderly people. The provision of inadequate care to elderly, demented patients seemed to be a systemic problem. Elderly people with psychiatric illness may not be placed in an assisted living center; however, the waiting list for getting living-in social care is rather long. In one of its earlier reports See p. 200, Népszámlálás, 4., Demográfiai adatok, Központi Statisztikai Hivatal 2013 (Demographical Data, The Census of 2011, published by the Central Statistical Office) 121