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In contrast, at the University General Hospital of Larissa there is widespread use
of restrictive measures (protective bedlinen/bed restraint primarily) and not
always with suitable straps; no records are kept for re-checking the measure
every half hour; and it is not always clear when and by whom instructions are
issued to put an end to these restrictions.
At the General Hospital of Corfu, the restraints in the Acute Incident Department are long-term, but the re-check of these occurs every half hour.
At the General Hospital of Tripolis, after the death of a restrained patient in
2013, mostly chemical restraint is used.
iii. Informing patients about their rights
At the University General Hospital of Larissa, patients who enter the psychiatric clinic voluntarily or involuntarily are not given a printed list of their
rights or legal remedies. Moreover, there is no visible information material
on display and no oral information is provided to patients or their relatives.
Overall, at the hospital level, the operation of the Office for the Protection
of Health Care Rights, whose presence and operation do not appear to be
in line with the requirements of the current legislation, in particular with
regard to the mandatory monitoring of the conditions for the admission,
examination, treatment and hospitalisation of mentally ill patients, is considered to be problematic.
iv. Staffing and infrastructure problems
At the General Hospital of Argos, although the Psychiatric Department was
inaugurated in 2015 and has a suitable and modern 15-bed infrastructure, it
has not yet functioned as a Psychiatric Clinic for the hospitalisation of patients, with the result that only the remaining services are provided (Outpatient Units, Psychosocial Rehabilitation Unit, Mental Health Unit, Occupational
Therapy programmes). The delay is attributed to lack of staff.
At the General Hospital of Tripolis there is a lack of staffing of the Departments and unacceptable infrastructure, as the facilities were built in 1945 and
are systematically neglected in view of relocation to the Panarkadikon Hospital. It is important to note that the alleged relocation was first announced
10 years ago, but to this day no further action has been taken.
At the University General Hospital of Larissa, the premises are generally
considered suitable and guarantee decent access and living conditions.
v. Post-hospitalization psychosocial rehabilitation centres
In Corfu, most post-hospitalisation centres do not seem to have been reno-
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