Security review as five patients go missing from Limerick psychiatric unit

Senior HSE management are to meet to discuss security and other arrangements after five people were reported missing from a psychiatric unit at one of the country’s busiest hospitals in the past two months.

Three of the five missing people were patients in Unit 5B, a 40-bed acute mental health unit located on the grounds of University Hospital Limerick, but which operates under the remit of the Community Health Care section of the HSE.

It is understood two others were waiting to be admitted to the 5b unit in the emergency department when they left the hospital and the alarm was raised.