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Draft Mental Health Law Highlights Protection Of Mental Patients' Rights And Interests

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Draft Mental Health Law Guarantees Rights And Interests Of Mental Patients

Draft mental health law highlights the legitimate rights and interests of patients with mental disorders

"The mental health of patients with mental disorders is not subject to personal dignity or personal safety.

Violation

"The whole society should respect, understand and care for patients with mental disorders" - the draft mental health law is being submitted to the twenty-third session of the eleven NPC Standing Committee to highlight the legitimate rights and interests of patients with mental disorders.

Chen Zhu, Minister of health, was commissioned by the State Council to make a mental health law to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

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Explanation.

He said that one aspect of the general idea of the draft is to effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of mentally disabled patients and ensure their dignity and personal safety.

Violation

Meanwhile, the conditions and procedures for involuntary hospitalization are strictly set up to ensure that citizens' legitimate rights and interests are not infringed upon by involuntary inpatient treatment measures.

The draft stipulates that the personal dignity and personal safety of patients with mental disorders are not violated.

The legal rights and interests of patients with mental disorders, such as education, labor, medical treatment, privacy protection and material assistance from the state and society, are protected by law.

The draft stipulates that the whole society should respect, understand and care for patients with mental disorders.

No organization or individual shall discriminate, insult or abuse mentally ill patients, and shall not illegally restrict the personal freedom of patients with mental disorders.

News reports and literary works should not contain discrimination or insult to patients with mental disorders.

In order to ensure that citizens' legitimate rights and interests are not violated due to the abuse of involuntary treatment and effectively prevent the occurrence of "mental illness", the draft stipulates the links such as delivery, diagnosis, hospitalization, re examination and appraisal, supervision and evaluation, such as making clear the diagnostic procedures of mental disorders, strictly regulating the application scope of involuntary inpatient medical system, and stipulating two kinds of referral and two identification systems.

Liu Hao, a lawyer at Beijing's law firm, believes that "the draft law focuses on the restriction of public power, which increases the pparency of admission management and rehabilitation treatment, and further prevents citizens' legitimate rights and interests from being infringed."