(d) where the Board or a sub‑committee is to visit a mentally disordered prisoner, it shall also
include the Inspector General of Prisons, or his nominee.
(5) Where the Board is satisfied that any patient in a psychiatric facility is not receiving proper
care or treatment, it may report the matter to the Authority which may issue such directions as it may
deem fit to the medical practitioner, or psychiatrist incharge of the psychiatric facility, as the case
may be, who shall be bound to comply with such directions.
(6) The Board shall enter remarks to a register to be kept for that purpose in regard to the
management and condition of a psychiatric facility and the inmates therein.
(7) Any information obtained by any member of the Board in the course of his duties or which
comes to the knowledge otherwise, shall not be disclosed except to the authorised person (s).
6. Establishment of psychiatric facilities by the Government.__ (1) The Federal Government
may in any part of Pakistan, or the Provincial Government may within the limits of a Province,
establish or maintain psychiatric facilities for the assessment, admission, treatment, rehabilitation,
care and after care of mentally disordered patients at such places, as it deems fit.
(2) The psychiatric facilities established under subsection (1) may organize or maintain separate
units for__
(a) persons who are above the age of eighteen years;
(b) child and adolescence psychiatric units;
(c) psychogeriatric units for the elderly; and
(d) persons who have been convicted of any offence and are mentally disordered for whom
special security measures shall be required.
(3) Where drug dependence units need to be established, they shall be set up separately which
may be within the premises of the psychiatric facility for people who are not mentally disordered but
have drug dependence or patients with drug induced behavioural changes.
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CHAPTER ‑ III
ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT
7. Care in the Community. Community based mental health services shall be set up for
providing mentally disordered persons, their families and others involved in their care with guidance,
education, rehabilitation, after care and preventive measures and other support services on an
informal basis.
Explanation:__For the purposes of this section, community shall include, family, home, work
place, educational institutions and other places where care and after care can be provided on an
informal or voluntary basis.
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