Mount Carmel Psychiatric Hospital
Mount Carmel Hospital is a mental health hospital located in Attard, Malta offering both in and out-patient service. The inpatient care includes acute care, rehabilitation & long stay, old age & medical care, children and adolescents, learning disability and forensic/prison ward. At Mount Carmel Hospital are assisted patients with mental health problems and supported for their social network. The hospital has many wards. Security measures are in place and patients need special permission to be allowed out of a ward into the yard outside. Admissions wards, Ward 1, and Ward 7 consist of shared dormitories and kitchen and smoking areas. In The Multi Purpose Ward, the Seclusion ward and the Maximum Security Ward a person is given non-tearable clothes and detained in solitary confinement for up to 17 hours / 24 hours. The bare small rooms contain a mattress on the floor and a squat toilet.
History[edit]
The hospital was built in 1861. In architects warned that the most of the ceilings at the psychiatric hospital were not safe and should be demolished. Since there is cultural heritage regarding the building building, plans were made to keep the façade of the building and rework the interior.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ Xuereb, Matthew (7 September 2022). "Plans filed to replace condemned ward at Mount Carmel Hospital". Times of Malta. Retrieved 15 February 2023.