High Level Of Overcrowding Persisting At UHL

Photo (c) Alan Place

Nurses say high levels of overcrowding are continuing to persisting at the region’s main hospital.

The latest INMO figures show there were 80 patients waiting for beds at University Hospital Limerick during morning rounds, 36 of those on trolleys in the Emergency Department.

The overall figure is just 6 more than the next busiest facility; Cork University Hospital, and comes on a day when there were 541 admitted patients without beds at hospitals across the country.