Brazil closes former psychiatric hospital where 60,000 people died and gives a home to the last survivors

Brazil closes former psychiatric hospital where 60,000 people died and gives a home to the last survivors

The transfer of the 14 patients who remained at Hospital-Colônia de Barbacena ends an era marked by the institutionalization of sane people rejected by society, including alcoholics, epileptics and single mothers

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