The Gibraltar Mental Welfare Society says it is concerned about the possibility that the Community Mental Health Team “might not have found its new home after all.” 

A statement continued: “When the Health Minister Gemma Arias-Vasquez announced the new site on the 3rd July, it sounded like an exciting new project was in place for the long awaited overhaul of the Coaling Island centre. The Minister spoke of the creation of a much more expanded service, and the provision of an excellent mental health hub for the community. Gemma Arias Vasquez spoke of the refurbished old Chronicle building as the perfect site for this new hub.

“For this reason, it was very disappointing to hear on GBC, earlier this week, that there are now doubts about whether this plan is to go ahead after all. Government has not answered questions about the project’s future in an unequivocal manner, thereby allowing room for doubt as to the intended completion of this hub. In the circumstances the GMWS asks the Government for reassurance that the resiting of the CMHT will be going ahead in the old Chronicle building, as stated by the Minister for Health in July this year.”