David Gutierrez
NaturalNews.com
November 28, 2009
Standards of care at Greek mental hospitals are still so atrocious that the European Union has threatened to cut funding for social projects if the country does not clean up its act.
“The system is in a state of reform, but I have to say that if patients are attached to their beds for hours or days, that’s totally unacceptable,” said Vladimir Spidla, the European Commissioner for Social Affairs. “For me it’s sad that this exists in the European Union.”
In 1989, a worldwide scandal erupted when photos were released of naked psychiatric patients restrained by chains in a hospital on the Greek island of Leros. Earning the name “island of the damned,” the hospital was condemned as the worst mental health facility in Europe. Since then, however, reform has come slowly.
A BBC reporter observed widespread physical restraint of mental patients at Dromokraitio Psychiatric Hospital, one of the two main psychiatric hospitals in the capital city of Athens. One woman was seen tied to her bed by a belt around her leg. When the reporter asked if the woman might remain restrained for years, a staff psychologist answered, “Yes, definitely.”
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Should not the UK, public sector broadcaster be investigating UK abuses? The NHS, fascist front, coupled to a corporation paid for from forced payments (television license), is unlikely ever take serious any abuses, even when caught on camera. Panorama, I was subject assault(s) on the wards of Scotland. I took a several years later a lie detector test, 00.01 no deception. Maybe evidence of abuse be seen this day. Where are your journalists, after sending an email, want me to beg?
Stop the chemical cocktails. Stop compulsive treatment.