32 7. Focal points of the visits conducted in the capacities of the NPM When visiting places of detention, the NPM examines the treatment of persons deprived of their liberty and the conditions of their placement. The visiting delegations examined those areas of treatment and placement where the risk of unsatisfactory enforcement of the fundamental rights of persons deprived of their liberty is the biggest. A distinctive feature of the visits carried out in the course of performing the NPM’s tasks is that the detection and identification of symptoms indicative of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and in particular physical and mental abuse are conducted with the methods of medical science and psychology. Focal points were determined on the basis of the CPT’s reports on visits to Hungarian places of detention, the reports of the UN Committee against Torture and the Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, the conclusions of my on-the-spot inspections carried out as part of my general activities aimed at protecting fundamental rights, and the recommendations of the CCB. 7.1. Reception Since persons deprived of their liberty are in an especially vulnerable position in the initial stage of their detention, the NPM thoroughly examines the reception process in each place of detention. In addition to the procedural actions of reception, e.g., medical checks, assigning bunks, providing with clothing, bedding and toiletries, the examination also covers the contents of briefings on the rules of the given place of detention and its rules of conduct, as well as the ways and conditions of maintaining contact with guards and relatives. 7.2. Material conditions of detention The visiting delegations survey the premises of the places of detention, inspect their furnishing and equipment. They examine the size of rooms used by the detainees and the living space at their disposal, the natural lighting and ventilation of the premises, the furniture, the detainees’ access to drinking water and the restrooms, the conditions of their staying outdoor, the washing facilities, the state of sanitary units and community rooms, and catering. 7.3. Vulnerable groups In my activities I must pay special attention to protecting the rights of the child and the nationalities living in Hungary, facilitating and monitoring the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, to protecting the rights of the most vulnerable groups of society.99 Since the aforementioned obligation is also applicable in the course of performing the tasks of the NPM, the visiting delegations pay extra attention to the prevention of illtreatment of women, foreigners, young adults, homosexual, bisexual or transsexual persons, and persons in need of healthcare or deprived of their liberty. 7.4. Healthcare In Hungary everyone “shall have the right to physical and mental health”.100 Each “patient shall have a right, within the frameworks provided for by law, to appropriate and continuously accessible health care justified by his health condition, without any discrimination.”101 See Section 1, Subsections (1) to (3) of the Ombudsman Act See Article XX, Paragraph (1) of the Fundamental Law 101 See Section 7, Subsection (1) of Act CLIV of 1997 on Healthcare 99 100