VICTORIA — A new report says the British Columbia government failed to meet the legal rights of mentally ill patients who were involuntarily detained in psychiatric facilities during a one-month review, sometimes without admission forms being completed.
It says there were no consent forms for treatment in 24 per cent of patients across all health authorities and one facility, the University Hospital of Northern British Columbia, complied with that requirement only nine per cent of the time.
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