Mezi Ploty festival underway at Pragues Bohnice psychiatric hospital

Dozens of music and theatre ensembles are performing at this year’s Mezi Ploty, or Within Fences, cultural festival at Prague's Bohnice psychiatric hospital. The annual festival which opens the doors of the city s main psychiatric hospital to the public aims raise awareness and understanding of mental illnesses, alcoholism and drug addiction and break the taboo surrounding these health problems. The festival is attended by the hospital’s leading psychiatrists who are giving lectures and taking questions from the public.