The government is finalizing the details for the implementation of the project that will come into effect on Sunday.
The President Luis Lacalle Pou He called on several of his ministers to finalize the details of the implementation of the compulsory confinement which will come into effect starting this Sunday.
The meeting will take place this Thursday at noon in Executive Tower and will be attended by the Minister of Public Health, Karina Rando, the Minister of the Interior, Nicolas Martinellithe one for Social Development, Alejandro Sciarraas well as leaders of the State Health Services Administration (ASSE).
The implementation of the plan compulsory confinement The ban will come into effect from this Sunday, and it covers people who live or sleep on the street and who suffer from some type of mental illness. In this way, due to the supposed uncomfortable situation that it generates in the neighbors, these people would be admitted even against their will.
The law that generated controversy with the Broad Front
In mid-May, Parliament approved changes to the law on involuntary confinement. homeless peoplean initiative that, until now, did not have the support of the Broad Front, although its support was finally achieved in the vote in the Chamber of Deputies.
With 74 votes in favor of the 83 legislators present, the project that already had its approval in the Senate. The initiative had to return to the House of Representatives due to the modifications that were carried out in the Upper House.
The law establishes that a diagnosis by a psychiatrist is no longer necessary for a homeless person to be admitted to a health center; instead, a general physician’s verification is sufficient to decide on the admission. The law allows the government to admit a person against his or her will if the doctor determines that he or she poses a “risk” to himself or herself or a third party.
The approval was celebrated by the ruling party. “When a doctor certifies that, for example, a problem with the consumption of psychoactive substances can generate a risk for himself or for third parties, that person is taken to a hospital against his will, by the Home Office“, explained the deputy and former Minister of Social Development, Martin Lema.
However, since the Broad Front They questioned the initiative during the debate. “We have people who, despite decades of trying to include them, we were unable to do so. Neither we nor the current government. There are some who do not want to see people living on the streets. Get them out of here. People do not want to see a situation that shows the inequalities of society,” said the deputy. Ana Olivera.
Source: Ambito
