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Guatemala's only mental institution, Hospital para la Salud Mental Dr. Federico Mora, open since 1983 afer joining two separate mental institutions, it has started a renovation process after the BBC made an insigder investigation. The hospital has new bed sheets, cleaner floors and all the make up.
As a mental institution it's been lacking correct service since the very begining. But after being in other public health institutions it takes me to no surprise. This is just a stone in the pyramid of tyrany and horror that this country has built.
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Underconstruction, renovations are going within the insitution, the workers interact with the patients freely.
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Bathrooms are separated by only a small wall.
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the face of one of the patients has been darkened intentionally to avoid showing his identity.
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One of the "chambers" in which an inmate is held during a psicotic attack.
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Inside Federico Mora
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Traces of a fire made probably by police.
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Police and Guards are present inside the institution as it also houses offending criminals with altered states of mind.
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The main "court" the basketball court is filled with patients lying on the floor probably sedated.
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The mentally ill are usually left to their luck inside the institution by family members.
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The entry of the Mental Hospital.