Brazil Closes Infamous Madhouse in Barbacena, Where 60,000 People Died
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It was the Colonia Hospital in Barbacena, where more than 60,000 people are estimated to have died because of the abuse suffered.
This Tuesday, Brazil confirmed the definitive closure of the Hospital – Colonia de Barbacena, an asylum where nearly 60,000 people died in 123 years. The last 14 psychiatric patients were transferred to a center in Minas Gerais. According to El País, the place is part of the most infamous history of Brazilian psychiatry. Rights violations, forced internments and abandonment of authorities occurred on the site. Read also...
One of them, Marcos, does not like to put on clothes, or shoes. Nor does he tolerate being touched, or interacting with others. He is unable to speak. Of that caliber are the sequels of decades of abandonment and a literally inhuman treatment in a madhouse that reached the age of 10, the most infamous in Brazilian history. This Monday the Hospital-Colonia de Barbacena, where some 60,000 Brazilians died of hunger, cold and diarrhea until the eigh…
The closure of Barbacena asylum marks a milestone in the struggle for human rights in Brazil, ending more than a century of abuses and tragedies.
Hospital Colonia became a symbol of an asylum model marked by overcrowding, abandonment and violations of rights; space had its activities closed on Monday (25)
After more than a century marked by horror, Brazil definitively closed the doors of the Hospital-Colonia de Barbacena, the most infamous asylum in its history, where some 60,000 people died from hunger, cold, disease and abandonment during the 20th century. The last gesture was symbolic and deeply repairing: placing a lock at the main entrance and moving the 14 survivors who still lived there to new community homes. The final closure took place …
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