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Mother Teresa charity says ties children up 'for safety'
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Subject: Mother Teresa charity says ties children up 'for safety'
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Mother Teresa charity says ties children up 'for safety'
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[ Subject: Mother Teresa charity says ties children for safety
[ From: "G.Subramaniam" <gsub...@comcast.net>
[ Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 2005
Mother Teresa charity says ties children for safety
By Krittivas Mukherjee
Reuters
Sunday, July 31, 2005
New Delhi, July 31 (Reuters) - A charity founded by
Mother Teresa said on Sunday disabled children at one of
its homes in India were restrained for their own safety,
after a British television reporter filmed children tied
to their beds.
Britain's Five News, in a programme to be broadcast on
Monday, said it had uncovered "serious shortcomings" at a
care centre run by the Missionaries of Charity in
Calcutta.
It secretly filmed many of the 59 children -- aged six
months to 12 years -- living at the Daya Dan shelter tied
by their ankles to their cots at night, restrained while
being fed and left for up to 20 minutes on the toilet by
their carers.
In a statement, Five News said it began investigating the
home after hearing complaints from international aid
workers.
The global order of nuns said on Sunday its charitable
homes only tied children when absolutely necessary.
"Physical restraints are used only when absolutely
necessary for the safety of the child ... for limited
periods of time," a Missionaries of Charity statement
faxed to Reuters said.
"We value constructive criticism and admit that there is
always room for improvement."
A spokeswoman for the order, Sister Christie, told
Reuters by phone from Calcutta: "It (the tying) happens
only when we see the child could be hurt. It's about
their safety.
"The children are sometimes tied because they keep waving
their hands and moving when being fed. Also they could
fall off (the cots) while sleeping at night."
Five News reporter Donal MacIntyre said: "I was truly
shocked by what I found at the Daya Dan centre. There are
strategies for looking after disabled children that
minimise stressful situations, and, as a result of poor
training and lack of resources, staff are resorting to
inhumane practises such as tying children up."
Five News said: "The shocking footage reveals that
despite receiving millions of pounds in donations every
year, there is little evidence of its investment at the
centres Donal visited."
Daya Dan was set up in 1998, a year after the death of
Mother Teresa, who adopted Calcutta as the centre of her
global charitable order that now runs more than 750
centres across the world.
The Missionaries of Charity, famous for working among the
sick, destitute and dying, said it was committed to
serving the ideals of Mother Teresa and improving the
quality of care in Daya Dan.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa, who founded the
order in 1950 in Calcutta, died in 1997 at the age of 87.
(Additional reporting by Kamil Zaheer)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L31156279.htm
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