Monday, November 19, 2007

Serbian Treatment of The Mentally Ill

This is not relevant to anything in Africa, but I just saw one of the most horrific news casts. On NBC they just showed a brief story on the way Serbs have been treating their mentally ill, with grown men in cribs, and children tied down within their own cribs.
The Mental Disability Rights International has been checking into this i guess, and have discovered problems in other countries such as Romania, Hungary, Mexico, Peru, Russia, Turkey, Uruguay, Argentina and Serbia's province of Kosovo. <<"They eat, they go to bathroom and die in those cribs," Laurie Ahern, MDRI's investigator, said as the group showed a graphic video of the patients and poor conditions in Serbia's mental institutions.>> This is so frightening, this is not just a suggestion please read this

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21790870/

there are some links of things you can do to help, if anyone wants to do something with me please let me know.

1 comment:

Leisy said...

That was soo disturbing...I couldnt even whatch the whole video... so maybe this was answered in the end but why were they put in cribs?? In the article it just said that it was "to protect them" but that can't be the only reason. It also said that they were aware it was a problem but they didnt think anything was going to be fixed until a couple of YEARS!!!