Update: May, 27/2021 - 14:56 |
A drug trafficking ring run by a mentally ill patient was busted at Hà Nội-based National Psychiatric Hospital No1 early this year. Photo vietnamplus.vn
HÀ NỘI The director of a hospital that was found to be the headquarters of a drug trafficking ring run by a patient has been sacked.
Vương Văn Tịnh, Director of National Psychiatric Hospital No 1 based in Hà Nội’s Thường Tín District, was dismissed due to improper management and responsibility that led to the drug trafficking ring operating from the hospital.
The incident was first reported on March 31 and is under further investigation.
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Detained Vietnamese land-rights activist Trinh Ba Phuong was returned this week to his former detention camp from a mental hospital in Hanoi, where he was sent for evaluation after refusing to cooperate with police investigators, according to his wife.
Phuong had previously refused to speak to or look at police officers during questioning, leading to a 30-day assessment of his mental health, and was sent back to detention on Tuesday, his wife Do Thi Thu told RFA on April 1.
“I called investigator Nguyen The Bac this morning, and he told me that my husband had been transferred from the National Psychiatric Hospital No. 1 back to Detention Center No. 1 on March 30,” Thu said, adding that the officer didn’t share the results of Phuong’s examination or say if he would be moved to the hospital again.