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e) One additional psychologist has already been appointed and performing his duties at Korydallos
Prison Psychiatric Hospital.
f) Finally, cooperation with the National Committee on the Protection of the Rights of Persons with Mental
Disorders and the Hellenic Forensic Psychiatry Association has been established and training of all
personnel working at Korydallos Prison Psychiatric Hospital on de-escalation measures for patients with
acute self-harm behavior is planned and is expected to be implemented within the next months.
As regards paragraph 67:
The Ministry of Justice, Transparency and Human Rights indeed acknowledges that the current level of
staffing at Korydallos Prison Psychiatric Hospital is inadequate for providing prompt health services to
mental patients, even though a full-time psychiatrist and a full-time psychologist have been added to
permanent staff. However, following art. 19 law n. 4491/2017 (A' 152) a total of forty (40) new health-care
staff positions have been added to the permanent positions of staff at Korydallos Prison Psychiatric Hospital,
as provided in Presidential Decree 96/2017 (Organogram of the Ministry of Justice, Transparency and
Human Rights, A' 136). These positions are considered necessary for the full operation of Korydallos Prison
Psychiatric Hospital following its integration in the National Health System. It is expected that within the
next months the procedure for the fulfillment of these positions through recruitment via the system of
recruitments in the public sector will commence.
It is worth mentioning that, in the above 40 new permanent positions there are also included two full
time occupational therapists.
Meanwhile, the medical screening of new arrivals at the Hospital is always taken place by the doctors on
duty with specialty on psychiatry, pathology and general medicine. In particular, during morning and early
afternoon hours there is one permanent and five visitors' psychiatrists and two visitors' pathologists (their
shifts are set at the beginning of each month). Also, on regular basis there are 7 doctors (specialty: general
medicine), who cover the hospital's duties on weekdays (working hours: 17:00-07:00) and weekends (24
hours).
Finally, in the framework of continuing training initiatives for scientific and prison staff, on September
2018 the scientific staff of the social service of the Korydallos Prison Psychiatric Hospital (i.e. 2
psychologists and 4 social workers) attended the two-day training seminar organized by the General
Secretariat for Crime Policy in cooperation with scientific personnel from the Department for the
Treatment of Addicted Persons 'JANOS' of the Psychiatric Hospital of Thessaloniki on "The basic
principles of the Motivational Interviewing and their application to the prison system".
As regards paragraph 68:
Despite the existing difficulties of available space and the old facilities of Korydallos Prison
Psychiatric Hospital, several activities for mentally ill detainees are operating on a weekly basis,
mainly under the therapeutic contribution, supervision and responsibility of the social service of the
prison. We briefly outline the following activities:
The treatment and counseling program for addicted detainees to toxic addicts or coexisting mental
illness — being implemented by 18 ANO, Drug Addiction Unit of the Psychiatric Hospital of Attica
(Dafni). (This program has been running for over 25 years).
The program of art psychotherapy — being implemented by the Association for the Support of
Prisoners "Onissimos" and funded by the STAVROS NIARCHOS Foundation.
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