Disgust at mental health care conditions at Christchurch's Princess Margaret HospitalJOHN KIRK-ANDERSON/FAIRFAX NZ Princess Margaret Hospital's mental health facilities have been described as "derelict" by some patients' families. Marcelle Lunam was so shocked after visiting her 51-year-old brother at Princess Margaret Hospital's (PMH) Seager clinic that the family decided to pull him out. SUPPLIED Photographs taken inside Princess Margaret Hospital's Seagar clinic show the facility is in need of an upgrade. CDHB mental health services general manager Toni Gutschlag said everyone agreed the Seagar building was "not appropriate", but the alternative was "a lot worse". Canterbury's health system stilled faced "unrelenting pressures" after the region's earthquakes, particularly in mental health, she said.

Source: Stuff January 25, 2017 05:17 UTC