CAMAGÜEY, May 22 (Pablo Pacheco Avila, CPIC) - Psychiatric patients who
are committed to the "Nguyen Van Troi" psychiatric hospital in the
outskirts of Ciego de Ávila don't receive adequate care and manage to
escape easily and frequently.
Indeed, the hospital's administrators continually stress to the inmates'
families that they do not take responsibility for what may happen to inmates
that escape or for any violent acts they may commit.
In addition, there is no ambulance or other means to transport patients in
case of medical emergencies. "If a patient at the hospital needs medical
attention, such as urology or orthopedics, he would have to wait for his
relatives to find a vehicle to be transported to the general hospital "Antonio
Luaces Hiraola."
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