PSYCHIATRIC NURSES PROTEST OVER 'UNSAFE' MERLIN PARK UNIT
Date Published: 01-Mar-2012
Up to 20 Psychiatric nurses are protesting at the entrance to Merlin Park hospital this afternoon.
Staff are calling on the HSE to address what they say are 'unacceptable levels of assaults on nurses' at the child and adolescent unit.
Since the opening of the unit a year ago, nurses have suffered in excess of 190 assaults.
The lunchtime protest is part of ongoing industrial action at the hospital for the last four weeks.
Speaking to Galway Bay FM News from Merlin Park, these protestors says the failure of the HSE to provide staff at the unit is putting staff and children at risk