HSE rejects call for smoking ban in psychiatric units
However, the Health Services Executive (HSE) Southern Area claimed the smoking ban does not apply to units at the Mercy University Hospital (MUH) and Cork University Hospital (CUH) under an older law.
The HSE has rejected a SIPTU call for a smoking ban in a psychiatric unit at Kerry General Hospital, Tralee, citing a law from 2002 which designated the unit as a district mental hospital and makes it exempt from the ban.
