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People with disabilities lose hopes, skills in psychiatric hospital, inquiry told

A therapist says leaving people with intellectual disabilities in a Halifax psychiatric hospital keeps them stuck in “an unnatural setting” where their skills and hopes fall away.

Nicole Robinson, a behavioural therapist who works at the Emerald Hall unit of the Nova Scotia Hospital, testified today at a human rights hearing in Halifax about her patients and the unit.

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