Ireland ‘a banana republic for psychiatric services’

IRELAND is a Third World country in terms of its psychiatric services, a leading psychiatrist has claimed.

Ireland ‘a banana republic for psychiatric services’

“Ireland is a banana republic for psychiatric services,” consultant psychiatrist Professor Patricia Casey declared at the weekend.

The professor of psychiatry at the Mater Hospital and University College Dublin said facilities for psychiatric patients were in an appalling state given the country’s wealth.

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