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Health Minister Jacob Axel Nielsen has asked his experts to thoroughly examine whether patients benefit from being strapped into belts and foot restraints in the way practiced at the psychiatric hospital where Denmark’s most mentally ill inmates are committed.
The move comes after several days of heated debate about the Secure Ward at the psychiatric hospital in Nykøbing Sjælland. In contravention of the Danish Psychiatry Act, patients have their arms strapped to a waist belt and have their feet restrained by belts so that they cannot kick or hit staff and other patients.
