Since June 29, photos have been circulated online showing a boy's foot shackled to a bench, and another tied to the bench with cloth around his neck. Both appeared to be mentally disabled.
Netizens described the photos as heart-breaking and a brutal breach of the organisation's charity spirit.
The furore prompted an investigation by local authorities, who said the nurses had used chains to confine the two boys, both of whom were suffering from mental illness.
One of them, 6-years-old and deaf-mute, has epilepsy while the other of the same age group reports symptoms of schizophrenia with an inclination toward violence, according to nurses at the orphanage.
To prevent the boys from defecating uncontrollably and hurting other children, the nurses resorted to the constraints, they said....
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