Woman with severe anorexia being tube fed by mother at home due to Covid pressures

Court told in-patient treatment programme not possible due to strains on hospital system

A vulnerable young woman with severe anorexia is being tube fed at home by her mother due to Covid-19 related pressures on the hospital system, the High Court has heard.

Aged in her 20s, the woman was made a ward of court and admitted to hospital in summer last year because of a serious decline in her weight and Body Mass Index.