Work starts to reinstate services at care home

WORK is under way to get Dail Mhor care home in Strontian ready to open for day services next month, Sunart Community Council (SCC) announced this week.

Representatives from all five community councils in the area, along with local GPs and nursing staff, are working with local NHS Highland managers to re-open the home in Strontian for day services in May.

The SCC said the building is to be cleaned and some parts redecorated over the next fortnight.

Dail Mhor closed last August due to an emergency plumbing issue, with all five residents being relocated. Although daytime services will be reinstated at the home, the priority for the community is still to see the return of respite and residential services.

Community councillors await news of a meeting with senior NHS Highland managers regarding residential care facilities for the peninsula, as promised at a NHS Highland board meeting two weeks ago.

At that meeting, a group of representatives from west Lochaber community councils heard firsthand about the proposals within a strategy paper received by the NHS Highland board.

However, the delegation was left disappointed by the proposals, saying they failed to lay out adequately a future plan for care provision in the Strontian area.

A community council meeting is being held tonight (April 12) in Strontian Village Hall at 7.30pm, at which members will discuss the updates further.