Inquiry into the Death of Howard Hyde reconvenes on October 19, 2009, for two weeks. Mr. Hyde died 30 hours after being tased while in the custody of the Halifax Police. The Inquiry is to determine how the legal and health systems in Nova Scotia treated Mr. Hyde. The Inquiry is streamed live online. I will be a witness at a later date, my evidence will focus on mental illness and stigma.
http://www.hydeinquiry.ca/
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The real tragedy is not with the police in using Tasers (the last resort). The actual tragedy is in society not being able to care for the afflicted.
http://diary.davidclimenhaga.ca/2009/09/edmonton-murder-suicide-heart-breaking.html
A 39-year-old father and his 11-year-old autistic son were found dead in an Edmonton home, apparent victims of a murder-suicide.
The tragedy took place, in the words of the Edmonton Journal, “because the boy had fallen through programming gaps and the family had been unable to get the help it needed.”
This is the reality of mental health care, now, in Alberta – before we start closing beds.
Anyone who has had any involvement with the delivery of mental health services “in the community” in this province knows that this is so.
And anybody with an ounce of sense knows it is going to get worse if we close mental health acute care beds, shut facilities capable of offering specialty programs and shuffle patients off into “the community.”
Another Journal story about the same tragedy told us that the boy had been “in a psychiatric unit and was about to be released without an alternative living arrangement…”
I hope that you had a good Christmas and I wish you the best in the New Year.
Cheers,
John
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