Campaigners fear for psychiatric patients in nurse strike action
Three of the five hospitals and facilities targeted for industrial action from 11am to midday today cater exclusively for people with mental illness and their supporters have asked that they be exempted from the dispute.
Brian Howard, chief executive of Mental Health Ireland, said he was concerned about the effect of the escalating dispute on patients. “It can only have an increasingly detrimental effect on their care,” he said.
