Mental care reform at risk? The Commissioner for Human Rights asks the Prime Minister for a position

. The spokesman asks the Prime Minister for the position
• The Polish Society of Environmental Psychiatry wrote an open letter to the prime minister on the future of the mental health care system
• Psychiatric communities see signs of abandoning the reform of the psychiatric care system and returning to a dysfunctional and archaic system of centralized mental health care
• Only continuation of the reform will ensure that people in a mental crisis will have access to care in decent conditions and with respect for the patient's dignity - emphasizes the Ombudsman
Marcin Wiącek therefore asks Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki for a position on the future of the mental health care system.

The spokesman became very concerned about the open letter of the Polish Society of Environmental Psychiatry to the Prime Minister regarding the future of the reform of the psychiatric care system in Poland.
The letter indicates that psychiatric communities perceive some signals of a departure from the reform of the psychiatric care system and a return to a dysfunctional and archaic system of centralized mental health care.
This creates feelings of disappointment, chaos and uncertainty among healthcare professionals and patients alike.
Social organizations expect further, systematic development of the network of mental health centers in the country, the unchanging method of its financing and an increase in the financing of the mental health care system to the level of 6%.
The Ombudsman fully supports these expectations. Only the continuation of the reform will ensure that people in mental crisis will have access to care in decent conditions and with respect for the patient's dignity as a human being.

Source: RPO