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A claim has been raised that inpatients at a mental hospital are taking on tasks such as cleaning and distributing meals.
The hospital explained that the patient came out on his own, but the inpatients are protesting that it is a human rights violation.
Reporter Kim An-soo of KBC covered the story.
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A mental hospital in Jeollanam-do.
An elderly man mops with wheat in the hallway.
This man, not an employee, is a patient who cleans not only the hallway but also the floor of the hospital room.
A, who was an inpatient, claimed that the patients took turns and cleaned the ward and hallways.
[Inpatient A: Since (another patient) is a new patient, please take turns cleaning the room...
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Actually, I cleaned it too.]
Another inpatient testified that the patient did the cleaning himself.
[I cleaned it, but I just put it through.
All hospitals do.
That's a complete blind spot.]
It's not just cleaning.
Some patients claim that they even took charge of distributing meals and separating garbage.
The hospital has never asked patients to distribute food and separate garbage, and some patients did the cleaning themselves.
[Hospital official: Even if you say 'don't do this' or 'you don't have to do this part', in the case of these people, they just turn around and do it if they want to.]
He also said that it is difficult to disclose CCTV in the ward, saying that the consent of the patient and guardian is required.
Last year, the Human Rights Commission judged this to be a human rights violation, saying that there were cases in which patients took on cleaning, etc. while psychiatric hospitals tolerated it.
(Video coverage: Kim Hyung-soo KBC)