O holocausto brasileiro e a responsabilidade do estado em relação ao direito à saúde e a prestação de remédios aos doentes psiquiátricos

Abstract

This paper aims to address the problems related to the duty of the State to ensure the effective provision of medicines to psychiatric patients. The study of the theme is relevant not only to the scientific community, but to society in general, since the right to health is a fundamental right. In addition, the analysis on the subject is complex, since there is an evident stigmatization of the term “mentally ill”, which is used for lack of another one that can better express the existence of eventual suffering of the individual, and that often ends up being treated as a mental illness. According to the World Health Organization, it is estimated that 700 million people suffer from some mental illness, in which case the inefficiency of the medical treatment given to these individuals when they are referred to the treatment clinics, besides not having a full assistance of the State, in order to guarantee the provision of medicines or other materials, are still subjected to degrading, violent and often abusive procedures, directly confronting the Principle of the Dignity of the Human Person. To do so, the research has as a method of investigation the bibliographical one that consists of the consultation of works, articles of periodicals, electronic documents, as well as of the pertinent legislation that deals with the subject.