"CPT urges Romania to take urgent action to improve living conditions and treatment for patients in psychiatric establishments "
"The most dramatic situation was found at the Pădureni-Grajduri Psychiatric and Safety Measures Hospital, where 104 patients had to share a bed with another patient. Patients were crammed into dormitories with almost all the floor space taken up by their beds; for example, in the admission ward, a room of 24m² was accommodating 18 patients in nine beds. For the CPT, the warehousing conditions of persons with mental disorders and intellectual disabilities found in this hospital may well be considered as amounting to inhuman and degrading treatment."
Also, from the report:
"The delegation visited the civil psychiatric hospitals of Bălăceanca, Botoșani, Obregia (Bucharest) and Socola (Iaşi). In all the hospitals visited, patients spoke positively about the staff, particularly nursing staff. However, instances of alleged ill treatment and verbal abuse by staff were received in all the hospitals visited apart from Obregia. In particular, on the male acute ward of Botoșani Psychiatric Clinic the delegation received numerous allegations of patients being ill-treated (punched, slapped, pushed, and shouted at) by auxiliary staff."
