Carers for a suicidal woman with special needs have claimed she was repeatedly refused admission to the psychiatric unit at University Hospital Galway.
When the city woman (47) was turned away from the Emergency Department of UHG, she attempted suicide in the sea off Blackrock in Salthill.
The woman was then brought to UHG by ambulance and accompanied by Gardaí but her carer says she was again turned away.
She attempted to gain admission to the psychiatric unit again last Thursday but to no avail.
In desperation, the woman then overdosed on her medication last Thursday night and was finally admitted to the psychiatric unit on Friday morning after first going through the general hospital.
She is currently being treated for her mental health problems at the psychiatric unit.
Teresa Daly, counselling psychologist, explained that the woman was having suicidal thoughts last Tuesday night and they went to the ED to have her admitted to the psychiatric unit at UHG.
“We tried to get her under observation in the psychiatric unit overnight but she was turned away. They wouldn’t admit here. We were told to go home,” she said.
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