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Tue 01 Jan 2007Report 'vindicates' mental hospital complaintsA critical report about the Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum has vindicated many of the complaints made by patients' relatives, Schizophrenia Ireland said yesterday.The organisation's director, John Saunders, said the organisation regularly received complaints from relatives about the unnecessary use of security and the unnecessary and unsupervised use of seclusion and restraint at the hospital.