University Hospital Limerick registered its highest ever overcrowding figures in 2017.
An INMO analysis of its daily trolleywatch statistics shows a total of 8,869 patients on trolleys at Dooradoyle throughout last year.
This is up nearly 10% on the previous year, and is more than 2,000 higher than at any other hospital in the country.
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Last year’s opening of a new Emergency Department at University Hospital Limerick was followed by even greater attandances at what was already the busiest emergency department in the country.
Phil Ni Sheaghdha is the INMO’s General Secretary:
