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Doctors of the General Hospital in Subotica will conduct physical examination of persons
deprived of their liberty, brought to the examination escorted by police officers. When there
are indications that this person have suffered violence, a detailed physical examination will be
carried out without exception, in order to identify and document bodily injuries and report
any illegal deed to the competent authority.
The medical documentation shall include the doctor‘s opinion on the cause-and-effect relationship between allegations of the injured person about the way in which the injuries were
inflicted and the identified injuries.
The Hospital will conduct the mechanical restraint measure, or the so-called fixation, fully in
compliance with the regulations and established standards of the treatment of persons with
mental disorders, and in particular:
· measure of mechanical restraint against the beneficiary will be used exceptionally, when
this is the only means to prevent the beneficiary to seriously harm his/her own life and
safety and lives of other persons;
· before applying a measure of mechanical restraint, it is necessary to consider and try to
use a less restrictive measure;
· easure of mechanical restraint of a beneficiary will be applied using medical interventions that will allow the period of application of measures to be as short as possible;
· measure of mechanical restraint of the patient will be conducted in a safe place and in a
way that that is least threatening for the life and health of the patient;
· measure of mechanical restraint of the beneficiary will be carried out with designated
means (straps, etc.) to ensure that the intervention is administered in a way that is least
threatening for the life and health of the patient;
· the psychiatrist will decide about the application of the mechanical restraint measure
and duration of such restraint, taking care that the period of application is as short as
possible, in accordance with the applicable standards and rules of the medical profession;
· where in the absence of a psychiatrist, another healthcare practitioner performs
a mechanical restraint of a patient as deemed necessary and urgent at the given
moment, he is obliged to immediately inform the closest psychiatrist, who is obliged
to approach the beneficiary without delay and assess whether the applied mechanical
restraint is justified, as well as whether it is still necessary, and accordingly, make the
appropriate decision;
· psychiatrist who made the decision to apply the measure of a mechanical restraint is
obliged to, as long as the respective measure is applied, as well as within the appropriate period after the suspension of the measure, make periodical visits of the beneficiary
subjected to such measure and monitor his health condition with due care;
· when in the course of the measure of mechanical restraint the psychiatrist determines
that the beneficiary subjected to the measure no longer poses a threat to himself or
other persons, the beneficiary will be released from such measure, without delay;
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