Books – Hisham Abdel Jalil Sunday, March 3, 2024 08:00 AM
The Psychiatric Patient Care Law allows any parent, guardian, or trustee to submit a request to examine a psychiatric patient who lacks or lacks capacity for treatment in a mental health facility.
The law obliges the facility to notify its social worker, if any, of this request and inform the regional council For mental health Within two working days from the date of admission, any parent, guardian, or guardian may also submit a request for discharge at any time unless the patient meets the conditions of compulsory confinement, in which case the procedures prescribed in this regard will be followed, all in the manner specified by the executive regulations. for this law.
It was considered that no person may be compulsorily admitted for treatment in a mental health facility except with the approval of a psychiatrist, when there are clear signs indicating the presence of a severe mental illness whose treatment requires admission to a mental health facility, in the following two cases, the first being the possibility of a severe and imminent deterioration of the medical condition. Psychological, the second is if the symptoms of mental illness represent a serious and imminent threat to the safety, health or life of the patient, or the safety, health and life of others.
In these two cases, the patient must refuse to enter the facility to receive the necessary treatment, provided that his family, the director of the facility, and the National Council for Mental Health or the Regional Council for Mental Health are informed of the decisions to compulsorily admit the patient within twenty-four hours of his admission, accompanied by a report that includes an assessment of his health condition, and all of this is on me. As determined by the executive regulations of this law.
2024-03-03 06:00:00
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