AAP General News (Australia)
04-17-2006
NSW: Govt denies mental health criticisms
The New South Wales government's denied reports a woman spent almost five hours in
a police van .. being shunted from hospital to hospital .. because of a lack of psychiatric
beds.
The 30-year-old .. who was picked up by police at Central station on Tuesday evening
in a distressed state .. was reported to have stabbed herself with a pen in the presence
of her daughter.
The Daily Telegraph reported the mentally ill woman had been refused a bed at five
Sydney hospitals .. and spent almost five hours in the back of a police van.
But a spokeswoman for Health Minister JOHN HATZISTERGOS has dismissed the reports as
misleading .. saying she wasn't mentally ill and had only been driven to one hospital.
AAP RTV ajc/was/goc/tm/
KEYWORD: MENTAL (SYDNEY)
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