SECTION 2.
The results of NMP operation in Ukraine
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Recommendations communicated to the management of
the Ministry of Health Care of Ukraine on the basis of the
monitoring results were as follows
⇒ To ensure proper financing of health care institutions for capital repair
and maintenance renovations, acquisition of new vehicles, elimination of
overpopulation in the wards of neuropsychiatric hospitals, proper diet and
medical support of psychiatric patients in accordance with the established
standards and procurement of walking/ moving aids for geriatric patients;
⇒ To regulate the legal status of the psychiatric hospital units treating patients
with concomitant pathologies and diseases (specifically, tuberculosis);
⇒ To remove bars from windows of neuropsychiatric hospital premises;
⇒ To research the matter of referral of chronic psychiatric patients with stable remissions to residences of relevant specialization (with account of
the preferences of such persons, their relatives or custodians);
⇒ To eliminate violations in security arrangements at compulsory treatment
units guarded by the State Guarding Service of the Ministry of Internal
Affairs of Ukraine, in accordance with Resolution No. 615 of the Cabinet of
Ministers of Ukraine (of September 10, 1993) “On measures for improvement of security at facilities in public and other ownership”;
⇒ To provide persons undergoing forensic psychiatric examination with free
access to beds at daytime;
⇒ To develop and approve personality profiling procedures during selection
of candidates for positions of custodians/ guardians/ adoptive parents;
⇒ To research the matter of possible sponsorship or charity assistance for
underperforming institutions;
⇒ To display on information boards the hot line numbers of public authorities
that the patients and visitors of health care institutions may call with their
complaints and suggestions; to ensure free access to telephones and to install boxes for complaints and suggestions at easily accessible areas.
Apart from these recommendations the Ombudsman sent a letter and a
submission to M. Azarov, Prime Minister of Ukraine, with regard to elimination of the violations of human rights and freedoms in the operation of
health care institutions:
On September 17, 2012 the Ombudsman sent a letter to M. Azarov,
Prime Minister of Ukraine, on the necessity of regulating the security
arrangements at compulsory treatment units and the procedures
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