The Psychiatric Patient Care Act prohibits involuntarily detaining a psychiatric patient in a mental health facility for more than one week, unless after two psychiatric assessments have been conducted for the patient by psychiatric specialists enrolled in the competent regional health council mental, as the case may be, one outside the facility and the other working there, provided that one of them is a civil servant.
According to the law, the assessment cannot be carried out by two specialists working in an agency.The two assessments must be submitted to the Regional Council for Mental Health within seven days of the patient’s retention requirement, and the form used for this it must be attached to them.
In the event that these procedures are not completed within the indicated deadlines, the case of mandatory hospitalization of the patient ceases and the structure bears the consequences that may derive from it.
According to the law, the patient’s compulsory hospitalization condition ceases if the Regional Council for Mental Health is not satisfied with the results of the psychological evaluation submitted to it, after examination of the patient by the National Council for Mental Health or the Regional Council for Mental Health.
Article (45) of the Psychiatric Patient Assistance Act states that a prison sentence of not more than two years and a fine of not less than five thousand pounds and not more than ten thousand pounds or one of these two sentences must be imposed. to who :
1 – Any doctor who deliberately affirms in his report something that contradicts the reality about the psychological or psychological state of a person with the intention of entering the structure or removing him from it.
2- Anyone who intentionally detains or causes the detention of a person suffering from a mental or psychological illness in places other than those or conditions provided for by this law.
