It’s a matter of last days Lazio Region
President Polverini’s decree on Lazio hospital system: the number of beds in
Psychiatric Institutions raise from 369 up to 629; more 70%.
50 beds for the public structure and 210 for
the private structure trigger the chronicization circuit.
260 beds = 90.000 life days subtracted to the
people at the cost of 10.000.000 €.
Didn’t the Basaglia Law foresee the closing up
of madhouses?
http://www.ilmanifesto.it/archivi/fuoripagina/anno/2010/mese/10/articolo/3498/
Reported below are only a few emblematic cases
reported from the press, television and internet, regarding the Italian
situation of psychiatry.
27 October 2005: RICCARDO RASMAN dies during a
coercive treatment by the policemen, for a hospitalization against his will, in
a psychiatric ward in Trieste.
it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caso_di_Riccardo_Rasman
21 June 2006: GIUSEPPE CASU dies in a
psychiatric ward in the hospital “Santissima Trinità” of Cagliari, as a
consequence of a thromboembolism, after a forced hospitalization. He was tied
hands and feet to the bed, for 7 days and was sedated with high doses of
psychiatric drugs against his will.
28 August 2006: A.S., the 17th of
August 2006 is admitted to the psychiatric ward in Palermo, for medical
investigations. A.S. died after 2 days coma, the 28th of August,
probably for excessive doses of psychiatric drugs.
26 May 2007: EDMOND IDEHEN, a 38 years old
Nigerian man, went voluntarily into the psychiatric ward of Bologna’s hospital
“Istituto Psichiatrico Ottonello – Ospedale Maggiore Bologna”. As he tried to
leave the hospital, the doctors forced him to stay, with the help from
policemen. EDMOND IDEHEN died as a consequence of a hearth attack while nurses
and policemen held him down. He was also strongly sedated with psychiatric
drugs.
artaudpisa.noblogs.org/post/category/documenti
12 June 2006: ROBERTO MELINO, 24 years old,
dies for a hearth attack; he entered voluntarily the psychiatric ward of
Empoli’s “San Giuseppe” hospital. As he tried to leave the hospital, he was
forced to stay by the doctors, and obliged to take high doses of psychiatric
drugs, in spite of his evident and serious breath difficulties.
15 June 2008: GIUSEPPE UVA, 43 years old, was
brought inside a police station, because he was driving in state of high
alcoholic level. There he was subjected to ill-treatments. After 3 hours he was
forced to an obligatory hospitalization in the Varese’s “Circolo” hospital and
was forced to take psychiatric drugs. He died because of the stress provoked by
the mix of alcohol and psychiatric drugs. www.repubblica.it/.../varese_pestaggio-2778623/
30 August 2010: LAURETANA LA COCA, 32 years old,
entered voluntarily in Termini Imerese’s “Salvatore Cimino” hospital. After 10
days of hospitalization her condition got worse, till she got into a comatose
state and died.
4 August 2009: FRANCESCO MASTROGIOVANNI, 58
years old, a well liked teacher, died in consequence of a forced
hospitalization, in a hospital of Vallo della Lucania. He was in a touristic
village, where he was on holiday. Nobody knows the reason of the forced
hospitalization. During the 80 hours hospitalization he was nourished only with
saline solutions; he was tied hands and feet to the bed, in such a position
that his respiratory functions where compromised, and he was sedated with high
doses of psychiatric drugs, without supervision from the staff. At wrists and
ankles there are 4 cm wide grazes.
www.giustiziaperfranco.it/
Giuseppe D.: A man, more than 70 years old, was
interned in Reggio Emilia’s psychiatric prison. His problem was that the
neighbour’s daughter is a psychiatrist. His lawyer took a legal action to the
European Court of human Rights, but until now there has been no answer, so the
Pisa’s student group “Collettivo Antipsichiatrico Artaud”, together with
“Telefono viola” from Milan, decided to release the documentation relating to
this case in Internet, according with Giuseppe D.’s will, his lawyer, and his
relatives. www.ecn.org/telviola
and
www.artaudpisa.blogspot.com
2 April 2010: ERIC BEAMONT, 37 years old, the 2
April 2010 was hospitalized in Lamezia. After 2 days he entered coma, so the
doctors transferred him to the Catanzaro’s “Pugliese – Ciaccio” hospital, where
he died. There is the suspect that the death of Eric was caused from a high
dose of benzodiazepine. Diagnosis was: subarachnoid hemorrhage. www.tirrenonews.it and calabria.indymedia.org/article/4758
Here below we report some data extracted from
the text of the parliamentary relation on the June 2010 inspection of the 6
Italian psychiatric prisons still active. After the 1978 “Basaglia law”,
madhouses had to be closed, but the 6 psychiatric prisons mentioned above keep
doing the same job.
The regulations and logics that
manage these psychiatric prisons (OPG), are the same inherited by the fascist
Rocco Code (1934). Now that the heirs of that Code are back to the power of
Government, they want to put their hands on the 1978 “Basaglia law” (law 180),
that abolished madhouses.
40 % of
the 1500 actual convicted should already have been released, for detention
terms expired, but they see their penalty end terms deferred in order of their
supposed social dangerousness.
Nine
people each cell, dirty bathrooms and bed sheets; dirty nurses’ gowns as well.
In Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto
(Messina), 329 convicted are owercrowded in cells built in 1914. Dirt
everywhere. One patient was found naked, tied up to his bed, with a haematoma
on his head.
Aversa, built in 1898. 320 people
locked up six by cell, in inhuman conditions.
NAS (Antisofistication and health
nucleus of carabinieres) reported and denounced all this to the Public
Prosecutor’s Office, but this office is often made by the same persons that
sentence patients to life.
Secondigliano, the psychiatric
prison is interior to the jail. Here stays since 25 years a patient who was
sentenced two years. Burns and black eyes are not reported on the clinical
diary. Feet and hands go gangrenous.
In Montelupo Fiorentino they are 170
in a very scruffy building.
In Reggio Emilia they are 274 where
they should be 132. 3 showers serve 158 patients. One is tied up to his bed
since 5 days for disciplinary reasons. 3 in 9 meters square.
“The OPG (psychiatric prison) are
one of the “silence zones”, explains Alberto, of the Pisa Antipsychiatric
Collective dedicated to Antonin Artaud, “and they show the political use of
psychiatry. The consume of psychiatric drugs is more and more pushed, the
electroshock comes back “in fashion”, perhaps to “heal” post partum depression.
And a law lies in ambush in order to bring the forced hospitalization terms
from 7 to 30 days”.
written
by Erveda Sansi – november 2011
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