Although the maximum permanence in the psychiatric rehabilitation workshops of the City of Buenos Aires is three years, the Buenos Aires Audit (AGCBA, for its acronym in Spanish) detected that there are patients who attend the institutions more than a decade. This is the case of two patients who perform their treatment in Workshop No. 6, which is in 3300 Bartolome Mitre and are in printing chores, there is also a third, who has been attending the same venue for more than seven years.

The City Watchdog sampled 68 of the 230 patients being treated in the service, which reports to the Deputy General Directorate of Mental Health, and found that the treatment time limit was not met in 35% of the cases.

On the other hand, the report says that the Directorate "does not know the degree of social reintegration" of those who go to the workshops because it does not have a follow-up program after discharge from patients. Likewise, neither statistics nor other procedures are used to measure the causes of non-attendance registered at headquarters: "The lack of indicators has a negative significance in terms of controlling the program's management", the AGCBA concludes.

Protected psychiatric rehabilitation workshops are intended for patients between 18 and 60 years of age, with severe treatment and compensated disorders. The City has 13 offices in the administrative center, plus other complexes, where services are provided for the government departments of the city, such as blacksmithing, carpentry, painting, sheet metal, printing and sewing. In addition, in the premises of the Hospital Borda is Workshop No. 4, a laboratory of medicinal products that, however, "does not perform rehabilitation functions." In spite of being a space for the assistance program and part of its budget, the control body says that in the workshop "no patient collaborates" and "only works with specialized personnel."

Although 100% of the respondents agree with the activities carried out within the program, the report stresses that the lack of interaction between the workshops and the different spheres of government makes it difficult for the patients to participate in the community: "There is no articulation (which allows to form a subnet, as mentioned in Law 955, "states the AGCBA in reference to a rule of 2002, regulated five years later by decree 1627/07, which promoted the formation of smaller groups within the service, where The patients find "a place of belonging, integrate with peers, incorporate work habits and develop aspects of their personal and social autonomy."

Within the workshops, the Audit noted that the bathrooms "do not work properly", there is no cleaning and maintenance service, there are no toilets and access ramps for disabled, fire extinguishers are expired - except in the laboratory workshop - have no alarm against fire and have no emergency exits or evacuation plan: "The current conditions of the physical plant do not ensure the integrity of patients or staff in the event of an evacuation," the Watchdog concluded.