41 providing healthcare services to members of society outside the prisons. The buildings, wards, and their equipment were highly worn out, the vast majority of them needed urgent renovation or replacement. Low water pressure made the use of the restrooms more difficult. On the main building’s fourth floor, and often on the lower floors, as well, patients had to flush the toilets with water collected in cans. In the Obstetrical-Gynecological Ward there were two mothers kept together with their newborn children. There was a boiler and a continuous flow water heater installed in the Obstetrical Ward; however, their operation was also hindered by the low water pressure. The terrace used by pregnant women and mothers with small children should also be renovated. The furniture was in very bad shape as well. There were twenty-five children born in the Hospital in 2014, and three in 2015 before the date of the visit. The visiting delegations did not uncover any circumstances indicative of any illtreatment in connection with maternal and infant care, and the joint placement and detention of mothers and their children. Births are reported on the next working day to the territorially competent mayor’s office. The registrar mails the birth certificates either to the Hospital or to the mother’s place of residence. According to the patients, the poor material conditions notwithstanding, placement conditions in the Hospital are much better than those in the penitentiary institutions from where they had been transferred. It is quite frequent that someone deliberately inflicts some damage on himself/herself just to get transferred to the Hospital. My colleagues met patients who had swallowed various metallic objects (bed spring, teaspoon, tablespoon, plaque remover) in order to prevent themselves from being transferred to another penitentiary institution. I requested the Government to ensure the financial resources for the expansion and modernization of the Hospital. I also suggested that the Minister of Justice should initiate an amendment to Act CCXL of 2013 on the Execution of Punishments, Criminal Measures, Certain Coercive Measures and Confinement for Administrative Offences which would stipulate the rules of opening and closing the doors of hospital wards or sickrooms where convicts with different levels of imprisonment are kept together. 9.1.2.3. Children in the Psychiatric Ward of the Merényi Gusztáv Hospital During their visit to the Closed Psychiatric Ward of the Merényi Gusztáv Hospital, my colleagues found a patient younger than 18 years of age in an eight-bed men’s sickroom. Although they did not come across any circumstance indicative of intentional abuse or illtreatment, I have drawn the attention of the Head of the Merényi Gusztáv Hospital to the fact that, according to the prevailing legal regulations on the minimum professional requirements necessary for health service provision, “healthcare providers taking care of children within the frameworks of adult care shall provide a separate sickroom for those children, an opportunity to the parents to be present and access to the services of a qualified pediatrician”. Children under the age of 18 may be treated in the adult wards of the following specializations: oto-rhino-laryngology, traumatology, surgery, obstetrics-gynecology, ophthalmology and orthopedics. 116 9.2. Disabled persons deprived of their liberty See Paragraph 1.1 of Annex 1 of Minister of Health and Social Affairs Decree 60/2003. (X. 20.) ESzCsM on the minimum professional requirements necessary for health service provision 116