Children’s mental health facilities are ‘shameful’

SEVERELY-depressed and suicidal children are spending days on hospital trolleys in A&E wards.

Children’s mental health facilities are ‘shameful’

Emergency medicine consultant at the Mater Hospital in Dublin, Dr John McInerney disclosed that, in one case, a severely-disturbed child spent seven days on a trolley because there was no alternative facility.

Hospital consultants have described the matter as “disgraceful”.

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