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"August 1993

I first entered ward B1 in the eleventh Pavilion of Leros Psychiatric Hospital in August 1993. Four huge rooms, each contain 20 beds. No sheets or pillows, just filthy rubber mattresses and an old cover - all year round, winter and summer. A large refectory, with tables and chairs set out only at stated hours. A wardrobe for everyday clothes of 56 people. Two showers - one of them unusable. A kitchen where nothing is actually cooked, but where meals for inmates brought from the central kitchens are distributed."

From:
"Leros: a small island in the Dodecanese, close to the Turkish coast"
Maurizio Costantino
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The Program for Psychiatric Reform in Greece
European Commission - Bruxelles
Regulation n.815/84

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Italian Team
FINAL REPORT ON THE MISSION

AT THE LEROS PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL

March 1993 - April 1995

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