Times Past: January 15, 1989

By Christy Kidner
January 15 2020 - 12:00am

Concerns around appropriate facilities for patients in the ACT with serious mental health issues was making headlines on this day in 1989. Two patients in particular had required round the clock care in a segregated ward in Woden hospital at a cost of $1000 per day.

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