Fresh calls are being made for an urgent commitment from government to reopen the Ennis Accident & Emergency Unit.
It comes after the INMO recorded 143 patients on trolleys at University Hospital Limerick yesterday, which is the second-highest level of overcrowding ever seen at an Irish hospital.
UHL is currently at its highest state of escalation, and as a result, elective surgeries there, as well as at Ennis, Nenagh and St. John’s have been cancelled today, with only urgent and time-critical patients, including cancer patients going ahead.
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Shannon area Sinn Féin local election candidate, James Ryan insists the situation is unacceptable for both patients and staff.
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