BULGARIA MENTAL HOSPITALS
September 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLBULGARIA has come under fire for failing to effectively reform its shoddy mental hospitals, which have been described by a human rights group as "dumping grounds where people are robbed of the right to any activity and wait only to die".This is the conclusion of a new report "Islands of the Forgotten" published by the Bulgarian wing of international rights group the Helsinki Committee, which has been investigating the asylums since 2001.It says that the country's 52 mental homes are largely rundown buildings, many of them former factories, ...
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