A Clare senator claims young people seeking eating disorder services are being let down by a system that isn’t fit for purpose.
In the wake of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Tulla Fianna Fáil Senator Timmy Dooley has highlighted the lack of specified eating disorder services operating within the Irish health system.
A recent Mental Health Commission report into Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Clare’s Community Healthcare Organisation Area found there was no designated area to treat children with eating disorders.
Addressing Minister of State Malcolm Byrne in the Seanad, Senator Dooley says young people with eating-related mental health disorders are being shoehorned into unsuitable services due to an ill-equipped system.
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