iRozhlas: Human rights violated at Czech psychiatric hospitals

The human rights of patients have been violated at Czech psychiatric hospitals in recent years, iRozhlas.cz reported on Monday. The news site said that placing restrictions on patients was used as a form of punishment, staff were guilty of rough treatment and patients were kept for excessively long periods in isolation.

iRozhlas.cz said it was citing Ministry of Health reports stemming from inspections of 17 psychiatric hospitals in 2018.

The news site recently reported on the case of a patient being bound to a bed for 12 years.

The directors of two hospitals said that they were keen to improve the situation but were hamstrung by capacity and staffing issues.