Committee on Health, Labour and Social Welfare, headed by Chairperson of the Committee Mr Suad Numanović and MPs Ms Maja Bakrač and Mr Mirsad Murić, paid a visit to Special Psychiatric Hospital “Dobrota” in Kotor.

During the visit, they met Director of the Psychiatric Hospital Mr Dragan Čabarkapa, Head of the Department for Addiction Treatment Ms Marina Roganović and Head of the Judicial Department Mr Jovo Đedović.

Director Čabarkapa informed the visitors that since its foundation (26 May 1953), the Special Psychiatric Hospital in Kotor has been a leading psychiatric institution in Montenegro. The hospital, as a health institution of secondary level, provides specialist and consultative and highly-specialised consultative and health services as well as hospital care for patients with mental problems, with relevant medical rehabilitation.

Capacity of the heath institution Special Psychiatric Hospital “Dobrota” in Kotor is 241 bed, while an average number of patients receiving health care is from around 250 to 280, whereby its capacities are fully used - more than 100%.

Hospital care is provided on voluntary basis - hospitalisation or by force - by decision of a competent judicial authority. A special category of patients are so-called judicial or forensic patients, to whom a relevant court has pronounced a measure of compulsory psychiatric treatment and custody in a health institution, or a safety measure which implies compulsory treatment of drug addicts or alcoholics.

After the meetings, the Chairperson of the Committee and MPs visited premises where the patients of the heath institution Special Psychiatric Hospital in Kotor are accommodated.