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Study reveals need for psychiatric services in Hong Kong, but also warns against forcing treatment on mentally ill

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The Hong Kong government should not make it a legal requirement for people diagnosed with mental illness to accept treatment as this raised concerns over ethics and human rights, a review of the city’s overburdened psychiatric services said. The report, released on Tuesday and written by a committee formed in 2013, also warned of an increasing demand for psychiatric services in the city – especially for children – as well as a rising need to treat cases of dementia as the...

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