Hackney mother’s anguish as agencies ‘wash hands’ of son with paranoid schizophrenia who broke down in Dominican Republic

http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/health/hackney-mother-s-anguish-as-agencies-wash-hands-of-son-with-paranoid-schizophrenia-who-broke-down-in-dominican-republic-1-5492660

Jesus wept! I keep saying we’ve had great treatment from the NHS but I swear if that was my child I would damn well swing for the so-called carer who took him to the airport!

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Let us never forget that it is the sacred, individual right of each person suffering from severe mental illness to be neglected and endangered.

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The odd thing is that it isn’t like that in the UK. They are much stricter about actually imposing Community Treatment Orders on patients. I wonder if the health worker concerned is one of the “hearing-voices-is-good/normal” crew.

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