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The dilapidated facilities should be renovated. The existing large rooms should be divided into
several smaller ones.
The hospital shall provide fixtures where patients will be able to put their personal belongings
in the hospital rooms and in other areas where patients stay (communal areas, halls, dining
rooms...) and shall decorate them to create a more humane environment and reflect the specific
nature of the patients who use them.
The Hospital shall encourage patients to bring with them their personal belongings: books,
magazines and photographs.
The Hospital shall encourage patients to wear their day clothes during the day.
Privacy of patients should be ensured in toilets and bathrooms.
Special Psychiatric Hospital in Kovin shall visibly place written notice of the rights and duties of
the Hospital’s patients in all wards.
The Hospital shall, within its means, provide brochures to inform patients by appropriate means
of their rights and obligations and the hospital rules, which shall be available to patients and
their families.
Special Psychiatric Hospital in Kovin shall ensure that consent is sought from the patient or
his/her guardian for subsequent introduction of any new medical measure before such measure
can be applied.
Special Psychiatric Hospital in Kovin shall notify the president of the competent court of the
problems it faces in involuntary commitment and involuntary hospitalisation of persons with
mental disorders at the psychiatric institution, in accordance with the provisions of the Law on
the Protection of Persons with Mental Disabilities which pertain to the powers of courts in the
process of involuntary commitment of persons.
The Hospital shall forward to the Protector of Citizens a copy of its communication without
delay.
Special Psychiatric Hospital in Kovin shall notify the authorities in charge of overseeing the work
of guardianship authorities in cases where competent centres for social work refuse to cooperate.
Patients at Special Psychiatric Hospital in Kovin shall not be restrained in the same rooms where
unrestrained patients stay.
Special Psychiatric Hospital in Kovin shall complete its records of use of restraints by providing
the following information: which less restrictive measures had been applied before it was
decided to restrain a patient; information on visits to restrained patients by the psychiatrist in
charge and by other medical staff; whether the patient’s legal representative was informed of the
restraining measure and, if so, when; any injuries inflicted on the patients or on hospital staff;
and any comments made by the patient.
Individual treatment plans for the Hospital’s patients shall be supplemented with all necessary
psychosocial rehabilitation programmes, including occupational therapy, group therapy,
individual psychotherapy, drama, music and sport activities etc.
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