A dying shame

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Duty to Care, a landmark West Australian study, recorded that about 400 mentally ill patients throughout Australia between the age of 20 and 30 will commit suicide in 2003 because the psychiatric wards that once treated them are closed or diminished. For almost a decade, there has been an official cover-up of the death toll in New South Wales and a remarkable media reticence about an experiment that has cost highly in human terms.

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Juggling the figures

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The acting head of the Central Coast Area Health Service in New South Wales in Australia reveals that more beds are promised for the mentally ill in psychiatric hospitals in 2003 but there is no staff to manage them. The working conditions are so poor that the people do not want to go into the system.

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The silent treatment

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The damaging correlation between deaths and lack of beds in psychiatric hospitals in Australia shows that the least restrictive care policy for patients with mental illness is flawed. The mental health authorities are secretly collecting the figures and maintaining official silence.

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