15 January 2010

CUBA: Bitter Cold Claimed 26 Mental Hospital Patients.

ALONG THE MALECON BLOG/ Tracy Eaton


Twenty-six mental patients died from hypothermia in a hospital during the cold snap this week, said a human rights activist. Elizardo Sánchez called it "criminal negligence."
The deaths happened overnight when the temperature near the Havana Psychiatric Hospital dropped to 38.6 degrees.