![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/muckamore-ex-patients-mum-questions-shock-therapy-use/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/119146850_muckamore_pa.jpg&description=Image source, PA Media Image caption, Muckamore Abbey Hospital is at the centre of the UK's biggest ever police investigation into the abuse of vulnerable adults The mother of a former Muckamore Abbey Hospital patient says she has "serious concerns" about whether her daughter needed to undergo electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) while there. Her daughter, identified as P119 to protect her identity, has severe learning difficulties. She was a patient there from 2012 - when she was in her 20s - until 2020. A public inquiry is hearing evidence about allegations patients were abused at the facility, near Antrim. In a written statement, read to the inquiry, her mother said her daughter, P119, was admitted to the hospital from a supported living placement in Belfast after her behaviour became "erratic and dangerous." She said her daughter had lived at home up until that point and was admitted under a mental health order to Cranfield women's ward at Muckamore. The inquiry into abuse at the facility heard P119's mother did not expect her daughter to come to any harm but did notice "there seemed to be many incidents that would result in her sustaining injuries." She recalled one occasion in August 2014 when she was told her daughter had broken her big toe on her right foot. When she asked staff about this she was told P119 had broken her toe kicking a door and that this was a "self-inflicted injury." P119's mother said her daughter was diagnosed with schizophrenia while at Muckamore. The inquiry heard she was contacted by her daughter's consultant in late 2016 or early 2017 as he wanted to treat P119 with a series of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) sessions. "It was explained to us that this would restart her and that it may help to improve her mood. "The proposed treatment of ECT was before we knew about the abuse she had suffered." P119's mother said she was concerned the behaviour her daughter exhibited, which the hospital sought to treat with ECT, may have been a reaction to){kind=link}
The mother of a former Muckamore Abbey Hospital patient says she has “serious concerns” about whether her daughter needed to undergo electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) while there.
Her daughter, identified as P119 to protect her identity, has severe learning difficulties.
She was a patient there from 2012 – when she was in her 20s – until 2020.
A public inquiry is hearing evidence about allegations patients were abused at the facility, near Antrim.
In a written statement, read to the inquiry, her mother said her daughter, P119, was admitted to the hospital from a supported living placement in Belfast after her behaviour became “erratic and dangerous.”