NewsWhore
09-04-2006, 05:40 PM
Families have left more than fifty patients to live out their lives at the nation's only psychiatric facility, the Padre Billini Hospital at kilometer 28 of the Duarte Highway. Some of the patients have been there for as long as 25 years. The hospital, popularly known as "El 28", was built in 1959 and has 200 beds. It receives between 8 and 14 patients a day, and generally sends them home after a 10-day stay. The medical facility receives a government stipend of RD$1.0 million a month and spends 40% of it on food for the patients.
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