Allegations of Abuse in Institutions
	Psychiatric Hospitals: Home 2007 Reports
	One News June 28 2007 Damning psychiatric findings An inquiry into psychiatric institutions in New Zealand has found that former patients were "scarred for life" by their experiences. The findings of the inquiry, released on Thursday, refers to former patients being scarred for life after being forced to sleep in large dormitories with beds close together and spending days locked in dirty, noisy, smoke-filled day rooms, infested with cockroaches and rats. They also spoke of no doors on toilets and with them being forced to line up naked and hosed down, before showering or taking a bath in cold water, which had already been used by others. A confidential forum heard from almost 500 former patients and their families, over almost two years. .