48 On Trolleys At UHL

Hospital trolleys

The level of overcrowding at the region’s main hospital has fallen slightly today.

The latest figures from the INMO show there were 48 people waiting on trolleys at University Hospital Limerick this morning, 38 of those in the emergency department.

The overall figure is 16 more than the next busiest facility, Cork University Hospital, and comes on a day when 250 people were waiting to be admitted at hospitals across the country.