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Leon de Beer

The deaths of 141 mental health patients occurred when they were moved to unlicensed, ill-equipped NGOs (Photo by Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

28 OCT 2022

Life Esidimeni did it wrong – community-based mental health facilities are the way to go

The Life Esidimeni tragedy should have spurred urgent action to make mental health care more humane, instead it seems to have frozen any attempts to do so

Leon de Beer

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