Overview
- The executive plans to send a bill in the ordinary congressional sessions beginning March 1 to modify Law 26.657.
- Measures under discussion include court-authorized involuntary hospitalizations, urgent judicial interventions and defined criteria for exceptional admissions.
- The draft contemplates creating specialized treatment centers, permitting neuropsychiatric institutions, revising discharge and rehabilitation rules and updating the Review Body and defenders’ powers.
- The Health Ministry led by Mario Lugones is preparing the text, which officials frame as a response to families, health professionals and security forces seeking clearer tools for complex crises.
- Mental health organizations criticize the initiative as a return to institutionalization, while the government cites high-profile cases and could announce the plan at the Opening of Sessions.