{"id":8764,"date":"2019-09-03T18:30:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T15:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/?p=8764"},"modified":"2019-09-12T18:26:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T15:26:35","slug":"urgent-call-for-action-persons-with-disabilities-in-cages-in-sighetu-marmatiei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/en\/urgent-call-for-action-persons-with-disabilities-in-cages-in-sighetu-marmatiei\/","title":{"rendered":"URGENT CALL FOR ACTION: PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES IN CAGES IN SIGHETU MARMATIEI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>On\n3 September 2019, the Center for Legal Resources (CLR) and Tonal\nAssociation launched an urgent call for action, following a very\nserious situation identified at the Sighetu Marma\u021biei Center for\nRecovery and Rehabilitation for Persons with Disabilities and at the\nSighetu Marma\u021biei Municipal Hospital Men\u2019s Psychiatry Ward in\nMaramure\u0219 county, Romania.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Imagini spital psihiatrie Sighetul Marmatiei 2019\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RCdpWNzbS5E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The situations identified by the Center for Legal Resources and Tonal Association constitute violations of fundamental human rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Psihiatrie_Sighetul_Marmatiei_2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Psihiatrie_Sighetul_Marmatiei_2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Psihiatrie_Sighetul_Marmatiei_2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Psihiatrie_Sighetul_Marmatiei_2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Psihiatrie_Sighetul_Marmatiei_2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>At the Sighetu Marma\u021biei Center for Recovery and Rehabilitation for Persons with Disabilities<\/strong> (in the courtyard of the Municipal Hospital):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li> Eight persons with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities were locked in five cages; the cages are approximately 2.5 m high, with metal frames and transparent plexiglass;<\/li><li>Three persons were tied with shirts and strips of cloth;<\/li><li> The sewage was being discharged behind the building, on the ground \u2013 there was a pestilential smell of feces in the courtyard where the beneficiaries should spend time outdoors;<\/li><li> There was no specialized personnel and the only staff who could carry out activities with the 30 beneficiaries of the center were a nurse and three orderlies;<\/li><li> The only information available on the ground was exclusively of medical nature; the plans for psycho-social intervention were not presented.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Psihiatrie_Sighetul_Marmatiei_3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Psihiatrie_Sighetul_Marmatiei_3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Psihiatrie_Sighetul_Marmatiei_3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Psihiatrie_Sighetul_Marmatiei_3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Psihiatrie_Sighetul_Marmatiei_3.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>At the Men\u2019s Psychiatry Section I at the Sighetu Marma\u021biei Municipal Hospital:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Unsanitary conditions, overcrowding, lack of specialized staff, serious under-financing;<\/li><li>Situations presenting a high risk of injury, self-harm and aggression;<\/li><li> Major procedural difficulties in the hospitalization of patients, regarding the ambulance service;<\/li><li>Exclusively chemical therapy (without psychotherapeutic programs);<\/li><li>Difficulties in managing involuntary admissions;<\/li><li> Discrimination based on diagnostic criteria leading to the overcrowding of the Sighetu Marma\u021biei psychiatric sections with the most difficult cases in Maramure\u0219.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/OOPR4745-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/OOPR4745.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/OOPR4745-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/OOPR4745-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2017, when the Ministry of Labour and Social Justice terminated its\u2019 collaboration protocol with the CLR, <strong>NGOs have not had official independent access<\/strong> in psychiatric hospitals and psychiatric wards, in centers for neuropsychiatric recovery and rehabilitation for adults with disabilities, in centers for care and assistance, centers for integration and occupational therapy, in placement centers for children with and without disabilities, in family-type homes or sheltered housing units. The Monitoring Council for the Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has refused to facilitate independent access to NGOs in closed mental health institutions, in contradiction with art. 33 para. 3 of the CRPD and with national legal provisions<a href=\"#sdendnote1sym\"><sup>i<\/sup><\/a>. Evenmore, in March 2019, the Ministry of Health revoked CLR\u2019s access authorization, only two weeks after it had been initially issued. The legal provisions regarding the authorization granted for visits to NGO representatives in health units<a href=\"#sdendnote2sym\"><sup>ii<\/sup><\/a> are in conflict with provisions<a href=\"#sdendnote3sym\"><sup>iii<\/sup><\/a> of the Mental Health Law, as access to institutions for monitoring visits is made conditional by the approval of the health unit manager.  <br><br> Given the facts described above, we hereby re-emphasize the importance of independent access of NGOs in residential institutions for children and adults with disabilities for the purpose of detecting and reporting of suspected cases of abuse and neglect.<br><br>We are witnessing a serious situation, a situation that remains frozen in time, in the past, which violates all international human rights treaties: the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the UN Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and its\u2019 Optional Protocol, the European Convention on Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the Oviedo Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine.  <br><br><strong>The Center for Legal Resources and Tonal Association have requested the emergency intervention<\/strong> of the Minister of Health, Mrs. Sorina Pintea, the president of the Monitoring Council for the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Mr. Florinel Butnaru, the National Preventive Mechanism against Torture established under the subordination of the Ombudsman, Mrs. Magda Stefanescu, the County Council president, Mr. Gabriel Valer Zetea, of the County Agency for Payments and Social Inspection Maramure\u0219 and the director of the General Directorate for Social Assistance and Child Protection, Mrs. Alina Coste M\u0103d\u0103ra\u0219.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>___________<br><strong>Update:<\/strong><br>On 6 September 2019, the Maramure\u0219 County Agency for Payments and Social Inspection (AJPIS) informed the Center for Legal Resources that the beneficiaries within the Sighetu Marma\u0163iei Municipal Hospital (the C17 neurology pavilion) have been relocated, following a visit carried out by the social inspection control team.<br> According to information provided by the AJPIS, the visit was finalized through a control act brought to the attention of the Maramure\u0219 Directorate for Social Assistance and Child Protection management, and an informative note brought to the attention of the higher structures, documents which the Center for Legal Resources has requested based on Law no. 544\/2001 regarding access to information of public interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n<strong>For more information:<\/strong><br>\n<strong>Center\nfor Legal Resources<\/strong>,\nGeorgiana Pascu, Program Manager, gpascu@crj.ro, 0729881159;<br>\n<strong>Tonal\nAssociation<\/strong>, Mugur\nFr\u0103\u021bil\u0103, psychologist, Chairman of the Board of Directors,\noffice@tonal.ro, 0744248489.<br>\n<strong>More\ninformation on the monitoring and reporting activity of the Center\nfor Legal Resources<\/strong>:<br>\n<strong>Death\nMap<\/strong>:\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"EVGvS1jRSS\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/harta-deceselor-in-spitalele-de-psihiatrie-centrele-de-plasament-si-centrele-de-protectie-a-persoanelor-cu-dizabilitati\/\">Harta Deceselor \u00een spitalele de psihiatrie, centrele de plasament \u0219i centrele de protec\u021bie a persoanelor cu dizabilit\u0103\u021bi<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Harta Deceselor \u00een spitalele de psihiatrie, centrele de plasament \u0219i centrele de protec\u021bie a persoanelor cu dizabilit\u0103\u021bi&#8221; &#8212; Centrul de Resurse Juridice\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/harta-deceselor-in-spitalele-de-psihiatrie-centrele-de-plasament-si-centrele-de-protectie-a-persoanelor-cu-dizabilitati\/embed\/#?secret=rPnjOAOrAs#?secret=EVGvS1jRSS\" data-secret=\"EVGvS1jRSS\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n  <br>\n<strong>ECHR judgement<\/strong>:\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"KSKGU5enFa\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/curtea-europeana-pentru-drepturile-omului-a-condamnat-romania-in-dosarul-crj-in-numele-lui-valentin-campeanu-vs-romania\/\">Victorie la CEDO: CRJ \u00een numele lui Valentin C\u00e2mpeanu vs. Rom\u00e2nia<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Victorie la CEDO: CRJ \u00een numele lui Valentin C\u00e2mpeanu vs. Rom\u00e2nia&#8221; &#8212; Centrul de Resurse Juridice\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crj.ro\/curtea-europeana-pentru-drepturile-omului-a-condamnat-romania-in-dosarul-crj-in-numele-lui-valentin-campeanu-vs-romania\/embed\/#?secret=NSmJQwrLYD#?secret=KSKGU5enFa\" data-secret=\"KSKGU5enFa\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n <br>\n<strong>Committee of\nMinisters of the Council of Europe<\/strong>:\nhttps:\/\/www.crj.ro\/ultima-decizie-a-comitetului-de-ministri-cu-privire-la-executarea-hotararii-cedo-in-speta-valentin-campeanu\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>_________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"#sdendnote1anc\">i<\/a><sup>\u0002<\/sup>\n\tArticle 4 i) of Law no. 8\/2016 regarding the establishment of\n\tmechanisms under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with\n\tDisabilities, which foresees as one of the attributions of the\n\tMonitoring Council \u201e<em>facilitating\n\tthe access, announced or unannounced, of non-governmental\n\torganizations representatives [&#8230;] in the institutions [&#8230;] in\n\torder to monitor the observance of their rights; to ensure that\n\tpersons with disabilities have independent representation before a\n\tcourt or in front of any other independent body, non-governmental\n\torganizations referred to above have an active legal standing to\n\tdefend the legitimate rights and interests of these persons<\/em>;\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"#sdendnote2anc\">ii<\/a><sup>\u0002<\/sup>\n\tAnnex 6 of Order no. 488\/2016 for the approval of the application\n\tnorms for the Law no. 487\/2002 regarding mental health and the\n\tprotection of persons with mental disabilities, concerning the\n\tauthorization granted for visits carried out by representatives of\n\tthe non-governmental organizations in health units: <em>\u201eThe\n\tauthorization is valid only during the periodof time for which the\n\trequest was made, accompanied by the approval of the health unit\n\tmanager or his substitute\u2019s approval, and previously approved by\n\tthe attending physician, who will assess the opportunity of the\n\tvisit from a clinical perspective\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"#sdendnote3anc\">iii<\/a><sup>\u0002<\/sup>\n\tArticle 47 of the Mental Health Law: <em>\u201e(1)\n\tRepresentatives of non-governmental organizations conducting\n\tactivities in the field of mental health or human rights protection\n\tmay visit psychiatric units or recovery and rehabilitation centers\n\tand may contact patients, based on an authorization issued by the\n\tdirector of the National Center for Mental Health and Fight against\n\tDrugs. (2) The authorization provided in para. (1) is issued\n\tnominally for the representatives of each nongovernmental\n\torganization and <\/em><em><strong>allows\n\tfree access<\/strong><\/em><em>\n\tin all psychiatric units and in recovery and rehabilitation centers\n\tfor one year from its issuance date.\u201d<\/em>\n\t<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 3 September 2019, the Center for Legal Resources (CLR) and Tonal Association launched an urgent call for action, following a very serious situation identified at the Sighetu Marma\u021biei Center for Recovery and Rehabilitation for Persons with Disabilities and at the Sighetu Marma\u021biei Municipal Hospital Men\u2019s Psychiatry Ward in Maramure\u0219 county, Romania. 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