PhDr. Miroslav Kudláček Ph.D.

"The other day, I was walking in the bathroom, and I fell and cracked my head open. I was bleeding. I knew that nurse Daňková was serving, and some other with her, and I felt at the time that I would rather bleed to death than be treated by her. But I went to the nurses' station, and they beat me up badly, and then they treated me. And then they gave me some more punishment. So that was probably the worst situation I experienced there."

"We only went home for Christmas, Easter and the summer holidays, and Christmas meant we were let out on the 23rd and had to go back on the 27th. That was the whole of Christmas. And they justified it by saying that they had to meet the schedule of a huge building, and if there was a vacant bed, they wouldn't get paid. They had a bedding unit, and they had to fill that somehow. It was some kind of payment, not from the insurance company, because there were no insurance companies then, but somehow that's the way it was. And the visits were once every two months, and there were rarely any exceptions. So, I was lucky that they allowed me, they allowed my parents, on my thirteenth birthday, right after those ten days my dad came there, brought me presents, some toys, and when he left, I cried all over the hallway."