Probe cites prevalent passionate and earthy abuse during Guatemala mental hospital

GUATEMALA CITY Human rights groups contend they found hundreds of women and children subjected to passionate and earthy abuse during a open psychiatric sanatorium in Guatemala’s capital. The Human Rights Office of a Archbishop of Guatemala led an... Read More

GUATEMALA CITY Human rights groups contend they found hundreds of women and children subjected to passionate and earthy abuse during a open psychiatric sanatorium in Guatemala’s capital.

The Human Rights Office of a Archbishop of Guatemala led an review by groups including a Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and Disability Rights International. Executive executive Segun Nery Rodenas pronounced Friday that a examine found patients in a Federico Mora sanatorium pang from a miss of medical attention, along with abuse by staff and inmates from a adjacent jail who were authorised into a hospital. The elect called for Guatemala to quickly residence conditions in a hospital.

Investigators found some-more than 300 children in unique confinement, and patients in sealed cells who died of preventable diseases due to miss of medical attention.

Source: Health Medicine Network