HSE 'doubling down' on plan for mobile drug injecting centre in Cork City
Merchants Quay Ireland was granted permission to operate the country’s first medically supervised injecting facility at its offices in Dublin city centre. Picture: Gareth Chaney Collins
The HSE is “doubling down” on proposals to set up a mobile drug injecting centre for Cork City after a long-fought battle to establish a pilot facility in Dublin was won.
HSE’s co-ordinator of Drug and Alcohol Services in Cork and Kerry, David Lane, said the HSE, with the support of other agencies, will progress this proposal over the next six to 12 months — with the key issue being funding.
