Seanad debates
Thursday, 29 May 2003
Adjournment Matters. - Mental Health Services.
The report lists some of the issues of concern. It states the facilities in the new unit are cramped with the television room, recreation area and smoking room inadequate for 22 patients. One patient with three visitors will fill the new visiting room. The dining room can accommodate about six patients. Apparently, the design team did not realise that mentally ill patients were rarely confined to bed except in the very early stages of treatment, if at all. Somebody on the team had concluded that patients would eat their meals from bed tables when in reality the majority use the dining room.
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