Clare Member Of Midwest Hospital Campaign Says Taking To Streets May Be Considered To Protest Overcrowding

A North Clare member of the Midwest Hospital Campaign says they may consider taking to the streets once more to protest high overcrowding number at the region’s main hospital.

It’s after the third highest number of patients on trolleys since records began were documented at University Hospital Limerick yesterday, with 97 people waiting for a bed, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

Protests were previously seen in February 2020, before the onset of the pandemic, calling for the A&E departments in Ennis and Nenagh to be reopened.

Ennistymon woman Marie McMahon, who’s a member of the Midwest Hospitals Group, says that may be considered again in the near future.