City protest over closure of Ballinasloe psychiatric unit
Galway Bay fm newsroom - A protest will take place in the city today (17/1) as part of the campaign to save the acute psychiatric beds at St.
Brigid's Hospital in Ballinasloe.Organised by East Galway Mental Health Action Group, the protest takes place ahead of the first phase of transferring beds from Ballinasloe into UHG next Monday. (22/1)Protestors will gather at Galway Cathedral at 12.45 this afternoon and will push a hospital bed along University Road from the cathedral to UHG.The closure of the 22-bed unit in Ballinasloe is part of the HSE's 'Vision for Change' review, but has met with much opposition from groups in East Galway, who fear it will have detrimental consequences.Protestors want an independent review of the decision to transfer the service and say they will accept whatever the outcome of that review is.