At least 41 irresponsible people must be released by next Sunday, the day the new Mental Health Law comes into force, the paper said. Public.
“An article has been excluded from the new law that allows the internment of the mentally ill who have committed crimes with sentences of more than eight years to be extended every two years until the end of their lives,” the newspaper writes.
Of the 41 people released, 12 were hospitalized at the Magalhães Lemos hospital in Porto, nine at the psychiatric clinic of the Santa Cruz do Bispo prison facility in Matosinhos, nine at the Sobral Cid hospital in Coimbra, eight at the Julio hospital. de Matos in Lisbon, two at the Casa de Saude do Telhal in Sintra and one at the São João de Deus Prison Hospital in Oeiras.
“There must be a transitional norm, a time to do the work of introduction,” said Horacio Firmino, director of the Joint Responsibility Center for Psychiatry Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, quoted by the newspaper.
“Many do not have any support and cannot be evicted to become homeless,” he added.
The state has not yet guaranteed a solution for everyone. Some end up in psychiatric hospitals, nursing homes or mental health centers, but others go unanswered.
“We hope that there are conditions in society to ensure that, without being in isolation, these people continue to be accompanied,” the President said. you visited meJoão Bruschy, an association that visits and guides tours with impeccable people who respect the measures at the Magalhães Lemos hospital and at the Santa Cruz do Bispo prison.
“Often a crime is committed against a family member. The family is not open to accepting them,” he added.