The inspection at the Psychiatric Hospital ended with an order to ensure the personal safety of patients

Beating of a patient in the Bardovci Psychiatric Hospital/Photo: Screenshot/Facebook

The State Sanitary and Health Inspectorate yesterday, after receiving information through the media about the occurrence of physical violence between patients, carried out a single extraordinary inspection supervision at PHI Psychiatric Hospital – Skopje.

The inspectors concluded that on 20.05.2023/XNUMX/XNUMX, a fight took place in the court ward at night between four patients who are placed in the ward of the same name.

- Given that it is an institutional problem, the solution of which is the responsibility of several entities, the health facility has addressed a written request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs - Bureau of Public Security to ensure 24-hour police guarding of the department during 30 days in order to establish order and prevent further unwanted events, the Inspectorate said.

According to the announcement published on their portal, a written request has also been submitted to the Ministry of Justice, indicating the need for the prison police, in addition to prisons and correctional institutions, to also provide psychiatric facilities where the measure of security is implemented for convicted persons for whom psychiatric treatment is mandatory. treatment and storage in health facilities.

- An urgent meeting has been requested with representatives from the Basic Public Prosecutor's Office, the Basic Criminal Court for the Execution of Sanctions, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Justice in order to provide sufficient resources for the protection of patients located in the judicial department at the PHI Psychiatric Hospital - Skopje, announced DSZI.

Pursuant to the Law on the Protection of Patients' Rights, the State Sanitary and Health Inspectorate issued a decision ordering the health facility to ensure the personal safety of patients during their stay in the health facility.

Disturbing videos of a patient being beaten by other patients at the Psychiatric Hospital have surfaced in the media these days, published by the profile of a patient who records and orders the beating of a "newcomer" in the prison ward of the hospital.

Yesterday and acting the director of the Psychiatric Hospital, Muhsin Arifi, confirmed the violence that exists in the judicial department and emphasized that these are aggressive patients who fight with each other, and are perpetrators of serious crimes of murder and attempted murder. Arifi emphasized that he has taken all necessary measures to protect the patients as well as the competent institutions.

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