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Tue 05 May 2010Mentally ill teens put on adult wards
IRISH CHILDREN with severe mental health conditions are still being admitted to adult psychiatric hospitals where there is no specific treatment for them, a conference in Galway heard at the weekend.
Consultant child and adult psychiatrist Dr Kieran Moore said that although this practice was due to end by December 2011 under an amendment to the Mental Health Act 2001, 15- and 16-year-old children were still being treated in this way.
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