Official Visitors

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Mental Health Official Visitors are members of the community who are appointed to:

visit approved facilities and secure mental health units to check on the way in which people with mental illness are being treated
receive and refer complaints made to them by patients receiving care and treatment in these facilities for mental illness.
receive complaints from a representative or support person of the patient and a person.