Mental Hospital move will 'stigmatise' patients

Placing the Central Mental Hospital beside a super prison in north Co Dublin will isolate patients and reinforce stigmas liked to mental illness, experts warned the Oireachtas Health Committee today.

Mental Hospital move will 'stigmatise' patients

Placing the Central Mental Hospital beside a super prison in north Co Dublin will isolate patients and reinforce stigmas liked to mental illness, experts warned the Oireachtas Health Committee today.

The Mental Health Commission and the Irish Mental Health Coalition were speaking to the all-party body after TDs and Senators toured the proposed site of the new facility in Thornton Hall.

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