Mental health unit: Bright future for CUH patients

For years, the old mental health unit on the ground floor of Cork University Hospital came in for criticism because of its dour, unappealing nature - hardly conducive to aiding the recovery of patients.

The Mental Health Commission repeatedly took issue with its “generally unsatisfactory structural nature, for modern acute care”.

But the good news is that a new, modern and up to the mark unit is about to be opened that promises a bright future - in every sense - both for patients and for the medical staff who work there.