Hospital staff attack plan for relocation to prison site

MEDICAL staff at the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) are strongly opposed to proposals within Government to relocate the hospital to a prison complex site.

Hospital sources are understood to be using internal avenues within the Department of Health to protest the move.

“We need a new hospital, we may need a new site, but there are absolutely no advantages, and there are a number of disadvantages, to being on the same site as a prison,” said a hospital source.