Prague has approved a proposal for the development of community care. Long – term patients from Bohnice will get a chance at a new life Company News Pražská Drbna
The councilors of the capital city of Prague, who ended up in the Bohnice Psychological Hospital for a long time and subsequently need special care, offered a great helping hand. The councilors approved a proposal that should provide new community care for long-term patients for whom social care services have not been provided. These people either had to stay in a psychiatric hospital or were sent to facilities outside Prague.
An unreasonably long stay in treatment could be a thing of the past
On Monday, the Prague councilor approved a proposal, thanks to which the system of so-called community care will be arranged for socially weak patients of the Bohnice hospital. “For more than three years, we have been doing everything to bring the care system into line not only with the Czech Republic’s international obligations, but above all with the needs of the people themselves and their loved ones. During the year, we began to work systematically with the management of the psychiatric hospital to ensure that those services can also be used by those patients, stay in medical beds for an unreasonable length of time due to a lack of appropriate social services, and need help in their daily lives to complete hospitalization. said the councilor of the capital city of Prague for social policy Milena Johnová (Prague itself).
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The agreed draft memorandum concerns cooperation in creating accessible community care for Praguers hospitalized at the Bohnice Psychiatric Hospital (PNB) and indirectly follows the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in which the Czech Republic has committed itself to providing assistance and support in everyday life. people with disabilities where they want to live. The city and the hospital itself make sure that long-term patients can return to normal life and create a new and cozy home. With this step, Prague is also committed to increasing its capacity in the field of social care. That is why PNB, together with the capital, wants to find places in the so-called residential social care services as soon as possible. The municipality will also focus on individualized support and social or health care in the community.
“The approved Memorandum builds on the long-term cooperation of PNB with individual social services operating in the field of care for clients with mental health problems. I see the key importance of the approved document in the system anchoring of cooperation. The last year of cooperation shows that this form enables effective cooperation and the search for new ways for our patients to return to the natural environment, ” adds Martin HollýDirector of PNB.
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