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World Service,04 Dec 2014,28 mins

The World’s Most Dangerous Hospital

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**Listeners may find some of this content upsetting** Campaigners say it is the world’s worst and most dangerous psychiatric hospital. Human rights violations that take place behind the institution’s walls have remained hidden from view. Chris Rogers goes undercover to reveal the hidden shame of Guatemala’s hospital for the mentally ill. (Photo: A patient lies, heavily sedated, on a hospital bed. BBC cpyright)

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