Thursday, July 31, 2003

Patients endure horrific conditions

As reported in the Galway advertiser

Psychiatric Patients in Connemara (Ireland) are being forced to endure horrific conditions at a daycare centre.

The day support centre in Clifden was used during the filming of the film Sinners outlining the horrors suffered by women in Magdalene homes, and according to Previte patients at the facility have to endure similar conditions to those depicted in the historical drama. "There is sewerage flowing into the day room and the kitchen," he said of the centre. "It's the most disgusting and disgraceful situation.

The centre caters for some 40 patients who avail of a range of treatments and therapies in the building.

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