Some 86 percent of the nation's hospitals and clinics lack measures for dealing with victims of domestic violence, according to the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry.
A team from the center's National Institute of Mental Health conducted a survey on domestic violence in January and February, eliciting responses from 626 hospitals and clinics.
According to the results, 10 percent of the institutions were unaware that the domestic violence law was put into force in October.
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