Repairing institutions instead of development of the community services

By | 15/06/2019

The CoE’s Development Fund approved a €11 million loan to the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina “for investments in psychiatric care. More specifically, it will finance the construction and modernization of six psychiatric clinics located in Banja Luka, Modriča, Sokolac, Višegrad, Sarajevo and Mostar.” The six mentioned institutions have more than 900 patients and the plan says nothing about their deinstitutionalization. It is mentioned that the facilities concerned will be upgraded in line with European Union and World Health Organisation standards, the UN CRPD is not mentioned and neither the Quality Rights standards of the WHO heavily based on the UN CRPD and aimed against the force application, guardianship AND Institutions.

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