New Central Mental Hospital 'will be full within a couple of years'

New Central Mental Hospital 'will be full within a couple of years'
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Mon, 10 Aug, 2020 - 06:00
Cormac O’Keeffe, Security Correspondent

The long-awaited and enlarged new Central Mental Hospital will be full within a couple of years, its director has warned.

The €170m hospital, located in Portrane, north Co Dublin, will have 170 beds, a 66% increase on its 102 beds in the current Central Mental Hospital (CMH), located in Dundrum.

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