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case of the patient’s suicide
in the “Almaty Narcological
Center of Medical and
Social Correction”, as well as
information appeared in the
media is the gross violation
of patients’ rights in this
institution.
No
prerequisites
for
suicide of G.G.A. in the form
of torture, humiliation and
insults were found.
The second special visit
was to SPE REM “Regional
Narcological Dispensary”
of the Health Department
of the West Kazakhstan
Oblast.
Based on the telephone
call received from the patient,
M.A.Zh., born in 1975, who
reported on the facts of him
being beaten by his guard as
well as two other patients.
When visiting, the facts
were confirmed, a petition
was sent to the General
Prosecutor’s Office of the
Republic of Kazakhstan from
the National Center for
Human Rights.
Other violations in this
medical institution should
be
noted
in
addition
to
indirectly
confirmed
beatings: on the outside, the
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building of special ward s is
more like the inner prison
of the penitentiary system.
The temperature regime
in the building where two
special wards are located is
not controlled, it is very cold
in the wards. According to
the patients in the premises
of special wards, they sleep
and stay in winter outerwear,
because the temperature
is very low. One of the
patients reported that he
had high blood pressure of
190/90 mm Hg, but he was
still held in a special ward.
The adjacent territory of the
local zone is littered with
household waste and feces
(confirmed by photographs),
the door to the outdoor toilet
is frozen and does not close.
The outhouse toilet is in an
unsanitary condition. The
windows are partially broken
out, they are tightened with
plastic wrap and lined with
cardboard, there are bars on
the windows, and there is one
window in each room of the
special wards. Artificial and
natural lighting is insufficient
for reading literature, there is
a twilight in the wards.
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