The HSE has confirmed that a specialist team is working out an approach to alleviate chronic overcrowding at the region’s main hospital.
In late April, Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly asked that the Health Service deploy a ‘specialist team’ to University Hospital Limerick in light of record trolley numbers.
126 people were left waiting for a bed at the Dooradoyle facility on April 21st, the highest figure of any hospital since records began.
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Responding to a question from Ennistymon Fine Gael Senator Martin Conway at the Oireachtas Health Committee, National Director of Acute Operations at the HSE, Liam Woods, says work is underway following the teams first meeting at UHL.
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