Mental health law should balance the

patients and the interest of the public

Guangming daily

Horse power

Mental health problems is not only the medical and health, public health problem, but also a social problem, involving the basic right of citizens and dignity, therefore, mental health legislation should balance the patients and the interest of the public.

Pay attention to mental health legislation in our country, follow the security mental patients and the public thought of common interest, as early as 1985 drafted the spirit, health law draft 26 years, 2009, JiGao 10 easy once for comments, and a few days ago, office of the state council announced the draft to the society, is open for advice. The National People's Congress has included in the plan in the investigation of the legislation this year, based on modified, strive to come as soon as possible.

The core of the legislation is to establish effective "involuntary" objection to the hospital mechanism

Mental health a focus of the legislation, is "not a voluntary admission procedures were". At present our country mental patients points chronic and acute two kinds, and divided into three groups: those that have behavior, his ability to decide whether into, discharge; Second is protective force, is the hospital civil law of provisions without person of civil action competence, by the guardian decided whether into, discharge; Three kinds of hospital, security is forced to ZhaoHuo hit-and-run because by the public security department were mandatory and determines whether from the hospital.

Mainly concentrated in the dispute two "mandatory" also is "involuntary, the core of the hospital" legislation is to establish effective "involuntary" objection to the hospital mechanism. Spirit of the health law about to strictly regulate the voluntary standards and procedures were, once have objection, the appointment, again, objection to the provisions of the judicial authentication, it is a big improvement. "Self-knowledge capacity" is medical evaluation, and "behavior ability" is the legal concept, from whether "self-knowledge capacity" to have "behavior", not by the doctor ability to replace the judge to judge.

Ensure the mental patient enjoy treatment of rights, change family responsibility burden, social relief the shortage of the status quo

Our country is a developing country, population and spiritual medicine development lags behind, the technical force severity shortage, 70% of the patients who lack of medical care, psychiatric hospitals only supposed to ground level, the vast rural especially remote areas, to meet the minimum requirements, serious lack of medical care.

Therefore, guarantee the mental patient enjoy treatment of the legislation of the first theme is right. And the high rate of treatment rates, low, cure rate is low, many mental patient not promptly rescue contrast government seriously insufficient investment, developed countries account for mental health in 20% of the investment in health, and our country is only 1%. Ensure the treatment of mental patients right of public health, is the important content of public safety. The draft made clear a direction, is to change the family responsibility burden, social relief the shortage of present situation, increasing investment, to improve the psychiatric treatment rates and cure rate.

A mental hospital is to meet the basic needs of the special social commonweal, hospital, is should by the Treasury, avoid full funding for excessive heal, drug and earned income extend patients' time. At the same time should improve the mental hospital medical staff's status, give special post allowance. Mental health treatment Suggestions into medical insurance scope, improving mental health drugs in proportion to submit an expense account directory, and perfect mental health assistance system, to the implementation of the treatment of free treatment.

The key point is to turn to the community, from the hospital that most patients with their family and live a normal life

Want to build a important discipline concept, the mental patient is first citizens and, at the same time and trunk of patients do patients and guarantee their basic rights and human dignity, and ensure they get treatment and not discrimination rights, it is the foundation of the mental health legislation.

Legislation should be clear aim is to make the mental patient treatment eventually return to society, stand on my own two. This needs to follow the concept of people-oriented, become closed, isolation type treatment to open, human nature, make a mental hospital treatment for mental illness, the home of the love that not only can improve the mental patients human rights protection level, will also be "put the conflict of interest to a psychiatric clinic, will be a mental hospital as restricting the personal freedom of the practice of the site" lose conditions.

General psychiatric acute onset should seize 3 to 5 days good timing of treatment, the patient awake after treatment, open into a half month, while the patient have receive a visitor and seek during the judicial relief, etc, and then by rights for about a month or so consolidate period, hospital patients, in the community, 3 months to half a year's rehabilitation, participate in various activities, for 12 to return to the society.

So, the legislation should make clear, focusing on the development of mental health career, from the hospital to community, to develop community public health, to encourage more patient stay in the community clinic and rehabilitation, make most of the long-term be forced isolation of patients with the crowd with my family, to lead a normal life, and also for the country, family save a lot of money.

The National People's Congress (author of education committee, the state council advisors)