Clare’s Independent TD insists an expected influx of flu this winter will push the region’s main hospital to the brink.
University Hospital Limerick has seen a recent spike in the level of overcrowding, with in excess of 50 patients on trolleys each day last week.
This is despite the opening of a 17-bed short stay unit in a refurbished section of the old emergency department in recent months to help ease pressure on the new ED.
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Plans for a new 96-bed unit are progressing to the planning stage but Dr Michael Harty, who’s chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health, is worried that winter levels of overcrowding hit early:
