• Policy of the Romanian Ministry of Health

  Preamble/Introduction

  WHO Annual Report for 2001 shows that the psychiatric disorders are an important source of disabilities; five out of ten of the leading causes of disability are psychiatric conditions. The life prevalence of these conditions is approximately 33% that means that one out of three people will suffer in his/her life of a psychiatric condition diagnosed with international criteria worldwide accepted.

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• Dutch Law on compulsory Admission

  Introduction

  The Psychiatric Hospitals (Compulsory Admissions) Act came into effect on 17 January 1994 and replaces the earlier Lunacy Act dating from 1884. The most important objective of the Compulsory Admissions Act is to safeguard the legal rights of persons suffering from a mental illness in the event of and during involuntary admission .

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• Recent developments in mental health policy

  The Romanian human rights organization Center for Legal Resources - Centrul de Resurse Juridice - published a small report about the living and treatment conditions in various psychiatric hospitals in Romania at the beginning of 2004. The director of the Center at that time Mrs. Renate Weber is nowadays an adviser of president Basescu. So the president knows from almost first hand the situation in the hospitals. I hope that he also knows that the criticized condition in hospitals like Gataia, has nothing to do with lack of dedication from the staff.

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• LAW ON MENTAL HEALTH

  CHAPTER 1

  General provisions

  CHAPTER 2

  Mental health promotion and protection and prevention of mental illness

  CHAPTER 3

  Assessment of mental health and diagnostic procedures for determination of mental disorder

  LAW ON MENTAL HEALTH AND PROTECTION OF PEOPLE WITH MENTAL DISORDERS

  

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