Moosa Salie di Cape Town – Sudafrica, Presidente del World Network of (ex-) users and survivors of Psychiatry (Wnusp) ha inoltrato una lettera (vedi qui sotto) con un riassunto sui fatti del Niguarda all'Alto Commissario per i Diritti Umani (High Commissioner for Human Rights) delle Nazioni Unite, Navanethem Pillay. Moosa Salie insieme a *Tina Minkowitz, canadese, hanno poi trasmesso la stessa lettera alla Sezione per i Diritti Umani, Economici e Sociali dell'OHCHR (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights) il 13.12.2010.
Erveda Sansi
12/12/2010 - Moosa Salie: An IDA International development association (Associazione internazionale per lo sviluppo) delegation, including myself, will be meeting the High Commisioner for Human Rights on Monday in Geneva.
Erveda Sansi 12/12/2010: Dear Moosa, The 23rd of November we, as Telefono Viola di Milano (Violet Phone from Milan), had a press conference at the Milan justice court’s press room. A series of atrocious events had happened in one of the greatest and notorious hospitals in Italy, the Milan’s “Ospedale Niguarda Ca’ Granda”. A 43 years old man, Tullio Ceccato, died because he was tied to a restriction-bed, inside the “Grossoni” psychiatric ward of this hospital. Another person, Francesco Defeo died in the same circumstances and others had very serious physical consequences, like arm-paralysis, nerve injuries, etc.
A psychiatrist, Dr. Nicoletta Calchi, was subjected to mobbing because she refused to practice coercive treatments, like restraint, and because she wanted to have human relations with her patients, instead of forcing them to take psychiatric drugs. Afterward, having she relieved her feelings with facebook friends, she was suspended from her job by the Psychiatric Service’s direction and her patients transferred to other psychiatrists. Other staff employees as well were moved to different services, or subjected to mobbing. 112 Dr. Calchi’s patients wrote an open complaint letter and made a petition collecting 500 signatures.
The press release was collected by the major Italian newspapers and news agencies, and reported the following days (Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, Il Giornale ecc.), of witch it’s possible to find a complete documentation on my blog (senzapsichiatria.blogspot.com), together with an article I wrote myself on the matter, for a magazine.
Tomorrow at 12.00, an other press conference will take place at the Milan justice court's press room.
Best wishes
Erveda
14/12/2010: Dear Erverda
I printed out your message above and handed a copy to the High Commisioner. Tina and I later had a meeting with the Human Rights and Economic and Social Issues Section of the OHCHR, where I also handed them a copy of your report.
I hope that they will follow upon this.
I am happy to be back home, where I arrived this afternoon. Moosa Salie
*Tina Minkowitz, J.D.
Tina Minkowitz is founder of the Center for the Human Rights of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry and was one of many individuals who contributed to drafting the CRPD, representing the World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry throughout the CRPD negotiations and serving on a 40-member working group that drafted the official text. Ms. Minkowitz has given expert presentations to the United Nations, government officials and NGOs in several countries, and consults with interested parties analyzing draft legislation in light of the CRPD. She is the author of “The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Right to be Free from Nonconsensual Psychiatric Interventions,” which includes arguments on torture and ill-treatment, and has presented with the Special Rapporteur on Torture on this subject.
