A 19-year-old Waterford student has told of the appalling conditions at the controversial psychiatric unit at University Hospital Waterford (UHW). She told staff and he subsequently tried to headbutt her in the smoking area of the unit. “There were male patients wearing nappies. "Psychiatric departments are obliged to admit such patients in the interests of their own safety, notwithstanding capacity to do so." In some cases patients need to wait overnight for a bed in the unit and are offered chairs and blankets, he added.

Source: Irish Examiner November 05, 2019 17:03 UTC