Letters to the Editor: Let's find the real causes of failures in the HSE's Camhs service

Recruitment problems alone cannot explain the litany of failures at Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service
Letters to the Editor: Let's find the real causes of failures in the HSE's Camhs service

A correspondent questions the 'transparency, accountability, and basic Hippocratic ethical morality' of the HSE's Camhs service in Co Kerry. Picture: iStock 

Mon, 07 Apr, 2025 - 00:10

Ann O’Loughlin (Irish Examiner, April 2) reports on the background to a case launched against the HSE in the High Court by “the parents of a 17-year-old girl who took her own life while under the care of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services [Camhs] in Kerry” in 2021.

This case is the most damning indictment associated with a major healthcare scandal which encompassed a litany of gross failures in the region’s Camhs service.

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