Mount Carmel Psychiatric Hospital

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Hospital, commonly shortened to Mount Carmel Hospital (Maltese: Sptar Monte Karmeli), is a mental health hospital located in Attard, Malta offering both in and out-patient service. The inpatient care includes acute care, rehabilitation and long stay, old age and medical care, children and adolescents, learning disability and forensic/prison ward. At Mount Carmel Hospital patients with mental health problems are assisted and supported for their social network. The hospital has many wards, and security measures are in place with patients needing 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 each day. The bare small rooms contain a mattress on the floor and a squat toilet. The hospital was constructed between 1853 and 1861 as the Asylum for the Insane, replacing a former asylum at Villa Franconi. It was renamed to Hospital for Mental Diseases in 1928 and to its present name in 1967. Plans to close down the hospital are ongoing as of 2024.

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