Prisoners are hospitalised under the general regime. However, by express decision of the Minister of Justice, taken in application of article D. 115-25 of the Penitentiary Code, they may be treated, at their own expense, under a special regime or in the private practice sector of hospital practitioners, if the supervision provided for in article R. 1112-30 does not inconvenience other patients.
Any serious incident is reported to the competent authorities in accordance with article D. 280 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Surveillance and guarding measures are the exclusive responsibility of police or gendarmerie personnel, and are carried out under the responsibility of the military or police authority.
The admission of a minor is decided, unless necessary, at the request of a person exercising parental authority or the judicial authority. The admission of a minor who has been placed in an educational establishment or entrusted to a private individual by the judicial authority ruling on educational assistance or in application of the texts governing delinquent children, is pronounced at the request of the director of the establishment or…
Subject to the provisions of article L. 1111-5, if at the time of admission of a minor it appears that written authorisation to operate on him or her and to carry out the procedures associated with the operation could not, if necessary, be obtained from his or her father, mother or legal guardian within a short time due to their distance, or for any other reason, they must, as soon…
When the patient is under the care of a departmental child welfare service, the director will send the confidential certificate from the head doctor of the service, stating the diagnosis and the probable length of hospitalisation, to the child welfare medical service in a sealed envelope within forty-eight hours of admission.
The property of adults under legal protection who are hospitalised in the establishment is administered under the conditions laid down by articles 436 and 498 of the Civil Code and by decree no. 2012-663 of 4 May 2012 relating to the methods of managing the property of protected persons, whose protection is entrusted to a legal representative, person or service entrusted by a legal person governed by public law.
Drug addicts who come voluntarily to an establishment for treatment may, if they expressly request it, be granted anonymity at the time of admission. This anonymity can only be lifted for reasons other than the repression of illicit drug use. These persons may ask the doctors who treated them for a certificate stating their name, the dates, duration and purpose of the treatment.
Persons ordered by the judicial or health authorities to undergo a detoxification cure are admitted and discharged under the conditions set out in Articles L. 3413-1 to L. 3413-3.
Staff at all levels must be specially trained to receive patients and those accompanying them.
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