Recommendations to the Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labor,
Health and Social Affairs of Georgia:
Study the cases of hospitalization by receiving formal voluntary consent of patients subject to
psychiatric care and take all necessary steps to immediately discharge patients for whom there is
no legal basis to apply the procedures of involuntary psychiatric care;
Develop and approve, by order of the Minister, a unified form of consent for placement in a
psychiatric hospital, which will provide complete, accurate and detailed information on the
essence of psychiatric care and patients' rights in an understandable form; In addition, the order
should define the obligation of the psychiatric institution to provide the patient with a copy of
the informed consent, as well as information on whom to apply if they do not want to stay in the
hospital;
Amend the order of the Minister,478 to make it mandatory to fill in the form approved by the
order #108/n of the Minister of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia (№IV-300-12/a) at all
stages of starting, continuing and changing the treatment scheme;
Develop and approve by order of the Minister the obligation of the psychiatric institution to
ensure introduction of oral and written information in a language that a patient understands
about the hospital's internal regulations, patient rights and inpatient policy immediately after the
patient is placed in the institution and then regularly afterwords;
Develop and approve by order of the Minister mandatory, accessible, simple and confidential
procedures for submitting applications/complaints outside the psychiatric institutions;
Develop and approve by a mandatory order of the Minister accessible, easy and confidential
procedures for submitting applications/complaints inside the psychiatric institutions;
In accordance with the Law of Georgia on Mental Health, ensure the use by patients of telephones
and other means of communication;
In accordance with the Law of Georgia on Mental Health and in full compliance with the
epidemiological requirements, ensure the possibility for patients to leave the hospital for a short
period of time without being discharged from the hospital, taking into account the patient's
mental condition
Therapeutic and safe environment
Recommendations to the Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labor,
Health and Social Affairs of Georgia:
Study in the psychiatric institutions the compliance of the minimum living space for patients with
the rules and conditions of issuing a license for medical activities and a permit for an inpatient
service
Examine the adaptation of psychiatric infrastructure to the needs of people with mobility and
sensory disabilities
Order of the Minister of Labor, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia on the approval of the rule of placement in a
psychiatric hospital №87/n, March 20, 2007 Tbilisi.
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