The Psychiatric Care Act prohibits keeping a psychiatric patient in a mental health facility for more than one week, unless two psychiatric assessments have been performed on the patient by psychiatrists, enrolled in the regional mental health board, depending on circumstances, one of whom is external to the structure and the other of its employees is one of them. A civil servant, and the appraisal cannot be done by specialists working in an agency. The two assessments must be sent to the Regional Council for Mental Health within seven days of the mandatory patient retention, attaching the form used for this purpose.
In the event that these procedures are not completed within the established 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.
