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wetandwindy
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« Thread Started on Dec 1, 2003, 6:05pm » | |
Dear all
This is a link to a Time Asia Magazine article regarding mental health/psychiatric issues in Asia.
http://www.time.com/time/asia/photoessays/mental_illness/index.html
It certainly puts what we, in the UK, consider to be problems into perspective!
What do people think?
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Paul
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« Reply #1 on Dec 2, 2003, 9:31am » | |
 I was absolutely shocked at the images I saw. Especially those of the children in Pakistan. I had always assumed as we have so many doctors from Pakistan coming here that standards of patient care were on a par with what we have here. It was unbelievable!
As for Indonesia - you would be prosecuted for treating animals in that way never mind human beings who are desperately ill.
Why aren't the humanitarian agencies involved in helping these people?
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« Reply #2 on Mar 30, 2005, 8:01am » | |
Thanks for that insight. Yes it does put our 'issues' into perspective.
The first picture was so similar to the image I retain of the chamber beneath the old Wakefield Psychiatric Hospital, Stanley Royd. It was part of the museum they have. It was a sound proofed underground chamber that had 'stalls', chain hoops in each 'stall' with a channel/gully down the middle, for waste, I presume. An image that I will never forget. I had little idea that 'modern care' could still look and be so similar in countries who seem enlightened in so many other ways.
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