Town’s Private Mental Asylums Ordered Closed
From Times Wire Reports
The government ordered the closure of all private mental asylums in a southern Indian town where a fire earlier in the week killed 27 inmates, many of whom were chained to their beds.
“We have issued orders asking all 15 asylums to close down within a week. As a first step, we have directed these asylums not to keep any of the patients chained,” said Vijaya Kumar, the top administrator of Ramanathapuram district in Tamil Nadu state.
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