SECTION 2. The results of NMP operation in Ukraine 119 2.8. MONITORING OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH CARE OF UKRAINE: RESULTS According to the data of the World Health Organization the number of people with mental and behavioral disorders and in need of special attention in their communities nears 500 million. with in-patient units – from 289 thousand in 2008 to 278 thousand in 2011. The number of psychiatric institutions accordingly diminished from 106 in 2008 to 98 in 2011. In Ukraine the incidence of mental disorders over the last ten years amounted to 2.5 % of the population, which means that over 1 million citizens require psychiatric assistance. The Ministry of Health Care is also in charge of nursing homes that accommodate orphaned, parentless and physically or mentally impaired children of up to four years of age. At the same time statistical data for four years (at the moment of drafting of this report the data for 2012 was not available) signaled a certain decrease in the number of persons hospitalized in psychiatric (neuropsychiatric) hospitals and psychiatric dispensary facilities The number of children’s nursing homes and their residents has also been gradually decreasing (from 49 accommodating 3,950 in 2008 to 46 for 3,490 in 2011) for the reason of development of in-family upbringing. In 2012 NPM Department staff visited 11 psychiatric institutions and 4 children’s nursing homes of the health care system, specifically psychiatric clinic No. 1 of Simferopol, Autonomous Republic of Crimea; municipal psychiatric hospital No. 3, Feodosiya, Autonomous Republic of Crimea; Ukrainian high security psychiatric hospital in Dnipropetrovsk; Dniprodzerzhinsk municipal hospital No. 1, Dnipropetrovsk Region; Lviv regional clinical psychiatric hospital; Mykolayiv regional psychiatric hospital No. 1, Lviv Region; Ternopil Regional communal clinical psychiatric hospital, Ternopil Region; Kherson regional psychiatric hospital; Kyiv municipal clinical neuropsychiatric hospital No. 1; Kyiv municipal neuropsychiatric hospital No. 2;