University Hospital Limerick remains more overcrowded than the next two facilities combined this morning.
Data collected by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation shows a total of 96 people were waiting for a bed at the region’s main hospital during morning rounds.
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Of these, 36 were in the emergency department while 60 were in wards elsewhere.
By comparison, 66 were on trolleys at Cork University Hospital while 40 were waiting for a bed at Sligo University Hospital.
The figure for UHL is also greater than the total for all eastern hospitals, where 95 were without a bed this morning.
