mental patients

National / Science & Health May 9, 2016

Number of patients physically restrained at psychiatric hospitals soars

The number of patients physically restrained at psychiatric hospitals more than doubled to 10,299 in fiscal 2013, compared with a decade earlier, data released Monday by the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry show. In addition to physical restraint, which often involves lashing a patient's arms ...

Editorials Jul 7, 2014

Not a solution for mental patients

The health and welfare ministry's plan to renovate some wards of mental hospitals into residences to reduce the official number of long-term in-patients will only prolong the "former" patients' isolation from society.