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Approved For Release 2003/09R40]:AS@EREPP6-00788R001300020001-6 ST-CS—01~169-72 July 1972 7. Local organs of the police in cases of necessity (if relatives or guardians of the ill person object or offer resis— tance) are obliged to offer assistance to medical workers in the hospitalization of persons mentally ill upon the request of the persons mentioned in paragraph five of the present Directives. 8. Sick persons hospitalized in psychiatric institutions are placed in the department appropriate to their mental condition for carrying out actual treatment, and are subject without excep— tion (no less than once a month) to examination by a special commission composed of three doctor-psychiatrists for consideration of the question of further stay in the hospital. Upon improvement of the mental condition of the sick person, or such changes in the clinical picture of the illness as to eliminate the social danger on the part ef the sick person, the commission of doctors issues an opinion on the possible release of the sick person. Release of such an ill person is carred out by handing him over to rela- tives or guardians. 9. If a sick person who is due, according to medical indica- tions to be released from the hospital, is in a condition where he may not be left on his own and does not have a permanent place of residence or persons able to take care of him, he may be released from the hospital only through transfer to patronage. In cases of necessity the hospital takes measures for the offi- cial registration of guardianship over the sick person. 10. Upon release cof the sick person the psychiatric hospital informs the relatives of the sick person and the psychoneurological clinician as to where such sick persons must attend for particular check~ups, if they are subject to regular prophylactic treatment. 129 (Reverse Blank) UNCLASSIFIED Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001300020001-6