Czech President responds to JKR -
About the caged beds issue Summary:
Several weeks ago, JK Rowling wrote an outraged letter condemning the use of caged beds in mental health facilities within the Czech Republic. As a result, the Czech President Václav Klaus made a promise to discontinue the use of the beds, and recently wrote a letter to Jo responding to her objections
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Thanks to The Leaky
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The issue of using particular restrictive means, as well as the overall regime for handicapped patients in medical institutions has been intensively discussed at the political level and in the public for a long time. It has its moral and ethical aspect, but the arguments of medical experts are equally important. It is impossible to simply shift the argument to the issue of abiding or abusing human rights. It is necessary to carefully evaluate the use of restrictive means in the treatment of individual patients. It is also necessary to find appropriate methods of preventing mentally handicapped people from injuring or mutilating themselves or others. Neither the Czech expert public, nor myself, can accept your radical and extremely simplified opinion caused by an emotive, and very tendentious article.
TLC