Call to allow addiction counselling service remain at Merlin Park
Galway bay fm newsroom -The Health Service Executive is being urged to accommodate users of the addiction counselling service within the grounds of Merlin Park Hospital.
The Counselling Centre was destroyed by a fire last month and two teenagers were arrested in relation to the incident.
However, a large amount of confidential client information was destroyed.
The HSE announced that the service, which caters for about 50 people per day, would be moved to the Department of Psychiatry at University Hospital Galway.
However Senator Fidelma Healy-Eames says she has been contacted by many service users who want the service to remain in Merlin Park.
Speaking to Galway Bay fm News, Senator Healy-Eames says people are more comfortable in the previous setting