 Residential and rehabilitation possibilities for persons with chronic mental disorders must be expanded as this would prevent some effects requiring hospitalisation. 2.2.4 Insufficient psychiatric beds The Kufstein District Hospital is responsible for acute psychiatric care of a region with around 150,000 residents. Only four beds are available in the closed ward of the hospital. As a result of this small number of available beds, police bring patients directly to the Hall Regional Hospital without a psychiatric examination. Subsequently, it sometimes occurs that staff in Hall ultimately considers that the patient does not display the requirements for compulsory hospitalisation. Furthermore, especially on weekends and at night there are often very long waiting times for a transfer to the Hall Regional Hospital due to police and emergency services staff shortages. Transfers can be delayed by three to four hours which extends the suffering considerably, especially for seriously psychotic and agitated persons. Patients must be turned away An expansion of the psychiatric ward and of its placement area at the Kufstein District Hospital is planned in the medium term. However, this example shows clearly that coordination of available capacity and the necessary care of patients in psychiatric hospitals must be a priori carefully implemented, taking the local conditions into consideration. Forward-looking and flexible planning necessary  Availability of psychiatric care must be planned in a forward-looking way and flexibly adjusted to the regional conditions. 2.2.5 Physical restraint lasting several days During a visit at the psychiatric ward of the Regional Clinic in Neunkirchen, Commission 6 dealt in depth with the case of a patient who had been physically restrained for several days. After several attempts to commit suicide and a previous stay at the Regional Clinic in Baden, the patient was admitted as an inpatient. From the time directly following his admission on Friday afternoon until his release the following Monday morning, his freedom was constantly restricted by way of multi-point restraints. Physical restraint for such a lengthy period of time is an extreme measure and a particularly massive intrusion into human dignity and fundamental personal rights. For example, the CPT has viewed mechanical restraints persisting over several days as abuse from a human rights 50 Physical restraint lasting several days violates human rights