Commonwealth Ombudsman Colin Neave informs about the latest developments and achievement of his office in January 2015.

On 2 February 2015 a delegation from IOI member Control Yuan took the opportunity of a stay in Vienna to pay a courtesy visit to the IOI Secretary General Günther Kräuter.

In her welcoming remarks, the Ombudswoman of the Gambia, Ms. Fatou NJIE-JALLOW, introduced the new website of the Office of the Ombudsman.

Ombudsman Anna Šabatová has turned to the judiciary to look into the suspected cases of maltreatment of seniors in homes for elderly, including restrictions of their personal freedom, bad nourishment, suspicious use of medicines and other serious flaws.

The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s casework revealed that the lives of mothers and babies could be put at risk because of an inherent conflict of interest in the supervision of midwives.

In a letter to Minister of Health, Dustin Duncan, Ombudsman Mary McFadyen reported yesterday that her Office is making progress with its investigation into the adequacy of care at the Santa Maria Senior Citizens Home.

A complainant together with parents of students of a school in Sindh approached the Provincial Ombudsman stating that a school was unjustifiably shifted to a three rooms’ building of a school at a distant place.

The Office of the Ombudsman held a press conference to announce the results of a direct investigation into the “Mechanisms Used to Review and Monitor Eligibility of Existing Tenants in Subsidised Public Housing” and presented a brief report on the work of the Office for 2014.