It was also revealed that the patients of the Psychiatric Hospital were involved into labor activities, pottery, weaving, painting experience were also used for rehabilitation purposes. At the end of the visit the discussions were held with the administration of the institution, relevant recommendations were given with regard the improvement of documentation work. The NPG members carried out a visit upon the OPCAT demands in Ganja City Psychiatric Hospital. On the visit day it was revealed that 91 male – patients were in the institution, however women department of the hospital terminated its functioning and female patients were placed in the Gazakh Regional Psychiatric Hospital. During the visit the area, building, canteen and kitchen of the hospital were visited, the conditions in wards and doctors’ rooms located in both of two floors of the hospital were investigated. It was revealed that the sanitarian unit and bathroom in the second floor of the men’s department required capital repairing. Despite the applications and complaints boxes were installed in corridors of the both floors, the information about the rights of patients were installed not in the corridor for patients to get acquainted with but in the rooms of the heads of departments. In its turn, this can be evaluated as violation of demands of the Article 12 of the UN Principles for Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care, of the principle “a patient…shall be informed of all his or her rights in accordance with these Principles and under domestic law”. The administration of the institution was recommended to install the informational boards about the rights of the patients in corridors where later could get acquainted with them. At the same time it was revealed that due to overloading with work of institution’s doctors, there was a need in provision of the hospital with additional doctors and in increasing the means allocated for medication supply. During the visit to the 2nd and 3rd departments of the hospital strong smell, unsanitary condition in sanitarian unit and bathroom of those departments, absence of TV set for leisure of patients were observed, it was also revealed that the wards require capital repairing, the beds in wards were not provided with threadbare, some were not provided with bedding sets, clothes of some patients were dirty. Despite the general condition in the hospital kitchen was evaluated as normal, it was mentioned that the meal ration was repeating and menu was not being changed. According to relevant standards on detention conditions of patients in psychiatric institutions European Committee on Prevention of Torture, Patients' food is another aspect of their living conditions. CPT is of the opinion the food must be not only adequate from the standpoints of quantity and quality, but also provided to patients under satisfactory 51