- 12 The CPT’s delegation visited one private institution: Athina Vrilissia Psychiatric Clinic, in a suburban area in the north of Athens. Purpose-built in 1971, the three-storey structure was surrounded by a garden and a secure perimeter fence. With a maximum capacity of 300, the Clinic was accommodating 256 patients at the time of the visit, 23 of whom on an involuntary basis. The longest a current involuntary patient had stayed in the Clinic was three years. 20. At Dromokaiteio Hospital, the Psychiatric unit at Evangelismos Hospital and at Athina Clinic, the delegation met several patients suffering from mental disability. These patients should be placed elsewhere, under more suitable conditions. At the very least, the allocation of such patients should be improved in order to separate long-term patients with mental disabilities from patients suffering from an acute psychiatric disorder, and the safeguards surrounding the de facto involuntary placement and treatment of patients with learning disabilities should be strengthened. Moreover, for as long as psychiatric institutions continue to serve as shelters for patients not in need of in-patient mental health care, the very significant reform efforts in the Greek mental health care sector will be undermined. The CPT recommends that the Greek authorities take the necessary steps to ensure a more appropriate placement of persons with mental disabilities who are not in need of inpatient psychiatric treatment. 21. Given the systemic overcrowding experienced by the Psychiatric Units of the three General Hospitals visited, the CPT recommends that the distribution of duties to assess and admit psychiatric patients in the Athens area be reviewed. In particular, services regularly scheduled to assess and admit patients must have the capacity to manage the influx of patients (see also paragraph 26). 22. The Criminal Code provisions regarding persons found to be criminally irresponsible due to a mental or intellectual disorder were amended in December 201714. Issues of relevance to the CPT’s mandate are discussed below, under ‘safeguards’ (see paragraphs 54 and 55). Adult men15 accused of, or sentenced for, a criminal offence and who require psychiatric treatment were held at Korydallos Prison Psychiatric Hospital, which was the subject of a follow-up visit by the CPT’s delegation, covered later in this chapter (see paragraphs 58 to 69). 14 15 Law 4509/2017. Women and juvenile offenders were provided psychiatric care either in their respective dedicated prisons or at public psychiatric hospitals such as Dromokaiteio Psychiatric Hospital.