Moldova's Permanent Patients
This story captures the daily life in the largest institution for people with mental and physical disabilities in Moldova, just thirty minutes from the border with Ukraine.
Large institutions remain a part of society in Moldova, even 30 years after the fall of the Soviet Union. Almost 1700 people living with disabilities are still placed in these institutions despite Moldova's efforts of deinstitutionalization in the last ten years. UN’s OHCHR has critiqued the institutions for the use of forced medication, isolation of patients, and examples of violence against patients.
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