HC Deb 12 May 1964 vol 695 c48W
Mr. W. Yates

asked the Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and the Colonies what action he has taken to implement undertakings given in February concerning mental hospital facilities in Aden and the removal of the mentally sick, both men and women, from Aden Jail.

Mr. Fisher

It is expected that the construction of a mental hospital at Sheikh Othman and a new psychiatric ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital will begin in July and will take about 12 months to complete. In the mean time medical and nursing staff for the projects are being trained. The construction of a new prison in Aden was begun in March and will be completed in February 1965. The possibility of making interim arrangements to accommodate elsewhere the mental patients now housed in the prison has been fully considered, but at present neither suitable alternative accommodation nor sufficient trained staff are available.

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