Mental Health Hospital Case

South Korea reported 229 more coronavirus cases Saturday, the sharpest spike in infections yet, with many new cases involving patients being treated in hospital for mental health issues.

The National Human Rights Commission has issued a notice to the West Bengal government over reports of an NGO finding some mentally-challenged men and women patients lying naked on dirty floor at a government hospital on Independence Day.

Six prisoners, all convicts in a murder case, who underwent treatment for "mental illness" at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) at Erragadda here, escaped from the prison ward of the hospital on Friday, officials said.

South Korea reported 229 more coronavirus cases Saturday, the sharpest spike in infections yet, with many new cases involving patients being treated in hospital for mental health issues.

The National Human Rights Commission has issued a notice to the West Bengal government over reports of an NGO finding some mentally-challenged men and women patients lying naked on dirty floor at a government hospital on Independence Day.

Six prisoners, all convicts in a murder case, who underwent treatment for "mental illness" at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) at Erragadda here, escaped from the prison ward of the hospital on Friday, officials said.