Before 1913, patients had been sent to the Asylum for the Insane ... mental health facilities. “In its early days, it was very distant and remote,” Cook says, pointing out that the hospital ...

Plans to use a former hospital in East Sussex as an accommodation centre for asylum seekers are under consideration by the Home Office, it has been confirmed. The Esperance Hospital in Eastbourne ...

The Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, has called for enhanced funding and support to address rising challenges in mental health care. The hospital’s Medical Director, Dr. Olugbenga ...

A vast network of asylums operated ... entrance to St Brigid's Hospital, Ballinasloe, Co Galway, in June 1980. Photo: Derek Speirs A young nurse at St Brigid’s Mental Hospital in Ballinasloe ...

HB 1218 would limit the number of patients each county can send to the state’s two psychiatric hospitals — Western State in Lakewood and the much smaller Eastern State in Medical Lake — for ...

Labour initially vowed to close the asylum site at RAF Wethersfield before setting out plans to increase its capacity ...

It is therefore the aim of this paper to review and identify meanings and connotations of institutionalization starting from Goffman's work on mental hospitals to the present day, focusing mainly ...

It is like mental torture,” Zainab said. “I feel like I am in an empty dark place always, because I don’t know what is going to happen.” Zainab says he has witnessed one of the asylum ...

Eastbourne Borough Councillor Robert Smart has condemned proposals by the Home Office to convert the former Esperance hospital into an 125-bed asylum seeker accommodation centre. "Many have been ...