"Back in the UK, I show some of the footage to a leading human rights lawyer, John Cooper QC. "Being a developing country with a poor economy is not an excuse for torture, sexual abuse and no dignified care," he says. I still think of the patients in there." There are puddles of urine on the mattresses, and the clothing on some of the patients is covered in their own faeces. The room is two square metres with a small window.
Durante una visita a ese hospital de salud mental, el diputado Edgar Batres confirmó que en total se registran 31 casos. We find more patients in rags sitting on the floor and in plastic chairs, rocking themselves for comfort. Por Ivonne Gordillo. The reporter describes how patients regularly soil themselves as they are too sedated to walk to the bathroom.The Federico Mora Hospital in Guatemala is home to 340 patients, including 50 violent and mentally ill criminals (Photo; BBC)“There are puddles of urine on the mattresses, and the clothing on some of the patients is covered in their own faeces. Actualmente, Hospital Nacional de Salud Federico Mora, es uno de los más conocidos en Guatemala; lastimosamente, en los últimos años no han sido por cosas positivas. "You store it in your mind. In response to our investigation, the Guatemalan government said that the hospital "uses the minimum dose of sedatives as recommended by the World Health Organization" and defended conditions in the hospital. Minera believes we are charity workers, offering help to his failed institution. I was bleeding down my legs, so I realised that what had happened that night is that a male nurse had come in and raped me," she explains. It could face economic and trade sanctions from other Inter-American Commission members.Hospital staff fear reprisals if they speak out, but six of them agree to talk to me on condition they are interviewed together, and not identified. The authorities agreed to act immediately and to launch an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse. While it had not received any reports of sexual abuse or rape, it said, it has ordered another internal investigation. He said the only way they can cope is to sedate the patients. "The BBC is not responsible for the content of external Internet sitesThe rapid tests for labs and care homes will help distinguish between Covid-19 and seasonal illness. A man was sitting in the corner and the floor was covered in human waste. The Guatemalan government told the BBC that it has begun the process of improving mental healthcare across the country and is starting to build a wall to separate the prisoners from the rest of the patients.
They have been written off. A man wraps his arms around my chest and begs me to take him away from the hospital. I still think of the patients in there. "The US campaign group Disability Rights International (DRI) spent three years collecting evidence on Federico Mora.
"We have complained but no-one listens. A man was cowering in the corner, the floor covered in human waste. But according to the hospital's director, Romeo Minera, only a minority have serious mental health problems - a staggering 74% have arrived in need of little more than attention and care and should have stayed in the community. Watch Chris Rogers's full report into Federico Mora in You can also listen online to an extended version on BBC World Service's The patients appear too sedated to take themselves to the toilet. Former patients say they were raped while sedated, and the director himself admits - while being filmed undercover by the BBC - that patients are still being sexually abused.Wherever I look I see motionless bodies lying on the crumbling concrete floor of a barren courtyard in the burning sun.
They are being locked up for the crime of having a disability. After two weeks her cries for help led her family to remove her. In a report published in 2012, the group described the hospital as "the most dangerous facility our investigators have witnessed anywhere in the Americas".It said "any person with or without a disability detained in this hospital faces immediate risk to his or her life, health and personal integrity, as well as risk of inhuman and degrading treatment or torture".The report explained that patients were denied medical care, exposed to serious and contagious illnesses and infections and - compounded by the "widespread" sexual abuse - were at risk of contracting HIV.On one visit DRI managed to film a female patient explaining she had been sexually abused on her first day in the hospital, while she was tied to a wall. On my visit to the hospital, I also saw one of the isolation rooms used for patients who become too violent to handle. Todos los reclusos que se encuentran en el Hospital de Salud Mental Federico Mora son positivos para covid-19, informaron las autoridades de la Oficina Nacional de Prevención contra la Tortura.. La semana pasada la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (Usac), realizó hisopados a los 321 pacientes que se encuentran internados en el hospital de salud mental, incluyendo los 67 reclusos …
"Since I was sedated I wasn't aware of it - I didn't realise until the next day that I had lost my innocence. Walking into one of the wards is like entering a hell on Earth. Hospital director Romeo Minera