We need to be very sensitive in using such powers. We need to make sure that when section 208 is invoked, the end result is not that people are pushed out of sight and sedated, but that they actually do receive appropriate treatment. The report states the spirit of the section was that such transfers would be made to provide treatment for individuals in the Central Mental Hospital which was not available to them in their psychiatric hospital or unit of origin. The fact that some persons transferred under section 208 have been in the Central Mental Hospital for a prolonged period, several years in some instances, seems at odds with the intention of the section. This is worrying because it suggests a kind of mini-gulag into which people who are inconvenient are stuffed out of sight, and the report states some of them have been there for years. Are they being treated, and, if so, is the treatment not successful?