belongings, there is no labour shop for psychosocial rehabilitation, and no
gynaecologist and dentist to provide operative treatment. Along with the above
mentioned, we think that the hospital should have a gerontology unit. At the
same time it should be mentioned that patients had better to be placed by being
differentiated according to the clinical degrees and degrees of seriousness of
their illnesses.
During the visit the members of the NPM Group witnessed how an orderly
of the hospital holding the arm of a patient praying in a narrow place between
beds in the ward, insistently required him to stop his praying.
The NPM Group, getting acquainted with the medical reports of patients,
found out that 2 patients had been hospitalized without their consents having
been obtained. According to the management of the hospital it is difficult to
obtain a court decision within 48 hours to ensure involuntary placement.
The Commissioner has addressed an appeal about the above mentioned to
the MH.
Along with the above mentioned, we believe that several deficiencies that
have been revealed in the above mentioned establishments of the MH and are
not related to renovation should be immediately eliminated, a normative
framework to regulate the operation of these institutions should be established
or improved, as well as the Ministry’s supervision over such activity should be
enhanced.
3.1.7. Establishments of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of
Population
The MLSPP has 10 establishments that fall under the jurisdiction of the
NPM. These establishments include homes and boarding houses for the elderly
and disabled (see Appendix 1).
As already mentioned, the NPM carried out 8 visits to the relevant
establishments of the MLSPP in 2010.
During the visit conducted to Home No.3 the conditions of detention of
children held there, their nutrition, sleeping accommodations, classrooms, and
other facilities were examined and information was collected. During the
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