Experts raise concerns over beds shortage in new Central Mental hospital

 The paper said prison landings are normally overcrowded with “acutely psychotic prisoners in double occupancy cells waiting for psychiatric admissions that cannot happen for want of beds”.

The limited number of beds in the new national forensic psychiatric hospital is likely to pose a “significant challenge” given the level of need, clinical chiefs in the hospital have said.

The country’s top forensic psychiatrists said “acutely psychotic prisoners” are sharing prison cells as they wait for psychiatric admissions that “cannot happen for want of beds”.