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Leading medical professionals have highlighted grave concern over mental health services to children as unpublished figures show a huge surge in distressed kids looking for help in A&E and with the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) clinics.
The number of children looking for psychiatric help for mental health issues has soared since lockdown restrictions were lifted last summer.
Paediatric psychiatrists have been describing the pandemic phenomenon as a tsunami which is expected to continue to rise, sparking concern that the HSE s chronically under-staffed CAMHS will struggle to cope with the surge.
Clinicians are seeing increasing numbers of distressed children presenting with suicidal ideation, self-harm and eating disorders.