Lynch to visit psychiatric unit earmarked for closure

MENTAL Health Services Minister Kathleen Lynch is to visit “in the coming weeks” a psychiatric unit earmarked for closure by the HSE, amid mounting opposition from doctors.

Lynch to visit psychiatric unit earmarked for closure

The HSE confirmed that the 49-bed St Michael’s Acute Mental Health Unit in Clonmel will not be shut this week, as had been feared.

The local Save Our Hospital committee is meeting today to step up its campaign to force the HSE to invest in the unit rather than shut it and move in-patients to alternative facilities.

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