Officials looking for ways to assist mental patients

Charleston Daily Mail | March 20, 2002| | Copyright

DAILY MAIL STAFF

The Kanawha County Commission and sheriff's department are looking for ways to address the needs of mental patients, needs some say have been neglected for too long.

The sheriff's department requested funds this year for a mental hygiene officer to help transport patients to and from the county's Judicial Annex.

The task of transporting involuntary mental patients to hearings in the annex has been the task of a few deputies who are on call virtually 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Lt. John Rutherford said during Tuesday's budget hearing.

In the past year, these deputies ...

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