The Mental Health Commission (MHC) has published details of nine inspection reports at approved inpatient mental health centres in Ireland with Deer Lodge in Killarney returning a compliance rate of 91 per cent.
Mr Peter Badimak Yaro, Executive Director of BasicNeeds-Ghana, has called on Government to ensure people with mental health conditions benefit from social protection interventions. Interventions such as Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty, District Assemblies’ Common Fund and free basic and secondary education are critical in relieving people with mental health problems.…
Man challenges order keeping him detained as involuntary patient at psychiatric facility
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A man with a mental health condition has brought a High Court challenge against a decision to extend his detention at a psychiatric facility.
The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, claims that proper reasons were not given by the Mental Health Tribunal why his detention was extended to July of this year.
The man who is aged in his late thirties, suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and has been an involuntary patient for the last two years on foot of orders made under the 2001 Mental Health Act.