- Beatings, humiliations, mistreatment, punishments and systematic violation of their human rights are experienced by those who are interned in psychiatric hospitals.
- In 90% of the cases, the perpetrators are the doctors, workers and/or authorities of these spaces.
- For this reason, it is also provided that no other psychiatric hospital should be built in the country.
According to an investigation by Political Animalbeatings, humiliation, abuse, punishment and systematic violation of their human rights are experienced by those who are interned in psychiatric hospitalsshelters and care centers for substance users.
In 90% of the cases, the perpetrators are the doctors, workers and/or authorities of these spaces.
As a result of the recent reforms to the General Health Law regarding mental health, which privilege family and community care where hospitalization is the last option, Documenta recovered the results obtained in an investigation carried out in 2020 which demonstrated the unworthy and violent conditions experienced by people with intellectual or psychosocial disabilities who are admitted to these centers.
in tune with the position made this Tuesday by the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), supported the new model of mental health care which, they affirmed, “constitutes a first and significant step in the long road that remains to ensure that in Mexico there are mental health care services based on community inclusion and full respect from the human rights”.
Without psychiatric hospitals where these ailments will be treated?
To guarantee access and continuity of mental health care and addictions, primary care outpatient establishments and psychiatric services should be available in general hospitalshigh specialty regional hospitals and national health institutes.
“The similar isolated psychiatric model is eliminated, no more monospecialized hospitals should be built. And the current psychiatric hospitals should progressively become outpatient centers or general hospitals within the integrated network of health services”.
The reforms seek to transform the model of patient care with mental illnesses. In order to ensure treatment in the public health system without being retained or subjected to practices that violate their dignity.
It also establishes the right of patients not to be subjected to isolation measures, coercive restraint. As well as any practice that constitutes cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, and where appropriate, be subject to means to mitigate the escalation of crisis.
“The Mexican State is obliged to guarantee universal access to mental health and addiction care for people. And change the model of care and hospitalization for patients with mental illnesses. Thus, it proposes giving priority in the health sector to care for addictions and mental health.
According to the reforms approved to the General law of health, In the new model of mental health care, institutionalization will not disappear, but it will be the last resort which, it is important to point out, must have the informed consent of the patient or the recommendation of an expert in the field.
For this reason, it is that it also provides that in the country no other psychiatric hospital should be built and those that already exist will have to undergo a process of gradual transformation until they become general hospitals.
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