Mount Carmel starts closing down: first 100 patients relocated 'within weeks'

Jo Etienne Abela said staff will move with clients and there will not be changes to their salaries or working conditions. Photo: Jonathan Borg

Some 100 patients will be relocated from Mount Carmel to other psychiatric homes and services in the community within the next few weeks, Health Minister Jo Etienne Abela said on Monday.The move is the first in a three-part plan to phase out and close down Mount Carmel as a mental health hospital within the next...