The Government and the opposition have clashed in the Dail over University Hospital Limerick.
It comes as scheduled surgeries at five hospitals run by the UL Hospitals Group aren’t going ahead once again today, as the Dooradoyle facility remains in its highest state of escalation.
99 people were waiting for a bed at University Hospital Limerick this morning, according to figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, in a week in which numbers rose above 140.
In the Dáil, Sinn Fein Leader Mary Lou McDonald accused the Government of being delusional on its record when it comes to dealing with hospital overcrowding.
Minister for Enterprise Simon Coveney has rejected Sinn Fein criticism, however, in relation to hospital overcrowding at UHL.
A Clare general practicioner, meanwhile, is dismissing suggestions that reopening Ennis’s A&E is the answer to overcrowding at the facility.
Lahinch GP, Dr Michael Kelleher has been telling Clare FM’s Seán Lyons that although the emergency department at the region’s main hospital is completely overburdened, having an accident and emergency unit in Ennis would be unsafe and difficult to staff.
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