People who have suffered brain injuries do no belong in psychiatric hospitals

ON behalf of Headway, the national association for Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), I would like to express my disappointment at the apparent mismanagement of funds in relation to the care of brain-injured patients in the public health system as highlighted in your report headlined ‘Security bill for patient heading for €1 million’ (September 13).

The report highlighted the cost of keeping a single man in his 30s under constant secure supervision in the acute psychiatric unit at Ennis general hospital.

This raises two issues that require immediate attention and action on behalf of the HSE and Government.