Current Affairs "Harry Potter" author joins protest at caged beds in Czech hospitals
The Czech mental health services have once again come under fire as some mental hospitals still use caged beds to help staff keep patients under control. Last month, Britain's Sunday Times featured an extensive article criticising such practices that are still used in post-Communist Central Europe. And a few days ago the BBC aired a shocking programme telling the story of a former psychiatric patient, forced to undergo treatment in a caged bed in a hospital in the Moravian city Brno. But only now has the controversial issue of caged-beds hit the Czech headlines, as J.K. Rowling, British author of the popular Harry Potter novels, has joined the protest.
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