BackThe Human Rights Defender Arman Tatoyan organized a 6-day training for medical personnel of mental healthcare area and at the end of the training handed out special certificates.
The trainings are derived from the human rights promotion and educational function prescribed by the RA Constitutional Law on Human Rights Defender and are aimed at enhancing the professional capacities of medical staff in the field of mental health, as well as at the full implementation of the Human Rights Defender’s recommendations.
The training was attended by the representatives of the subdivision conducting an oversight of the field of psychiatric care and service of the RA Ministry of Health, as well as by medical personnel of all psychiatric establishments of Armenia, including regional (doctors, psychotherapists, psychologists, paramedics and nurses), psychiatrists of the Prison Medical Center SNCO of the RA Ministry of Justice and other representatives of the medical personnel of the psychiatric ward of the Prison Hospital Penitentiary Institution.
The training discussed the following:
- systemic issues with regard to providing psychiatric hospital medical services, including use of restraint measures, standards on patient examination, procedures on the inpatient admission and discharge, informing and obtaining informed consent, compulsory (in criminal and civil proceedings);
- organization of screenings;
- domestic and international standards on the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
- the role and mandate of the Human Rights Defender as the National Preventive Mechanism.
Source: Office of the Human Rights Defender, Armenia
