Residents of Chortoryisk psycho-neurological residential facility put to isolation ward for ‘bad behaviour’

The residents of the Chortoryisk psycho-neurological residential facility sleep on broken beds and have access to them at night only.

This is stated in the report of the monitors of the National Preventive Mechanism.

At the time of the monitors’ visit, there were 124 residents in the facility. They sleep on the old broken beds, which they cannot use during the day, spend time in the room, equipped with benches only, and are forced to buy medicines at their own expense.

According to Iryna Serhienko, representative of the department for NPM implementation at the Secretariat of the Ombudsperson, the facility does not provide medical services though it is completely staffed with the healthcare workers. The residential facility has a doctor, a physical therapy nurse, and a massage therapist.

Professor of the medical college works at the post of psychiatrist and does not have the right to prescribe the treatment, so the prescriptions were made to the residents back in 2010 and 2012.

A dentist and a psychiatrist at a district hospital refuse to treat the residents of the facility, so the executives are forced to invite private specialists from other districts at the expense of the residents.

Among other things, a cultural worker deals with book keeping, is engaged in maintenance, and is the guardian of 76 people, despite the fact she is not the director of the facility.

The facility also has an isolation ward, where the residents punished for “bad behavior” are kept.