There were more people on trolleys at University Hospital Limerick today, than all nine hospitals in the East of the country combined.
The latest figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation show there were 134 admitted patients waiting for a bed at the region’s main hospital this morning, 73 of those on trolleys or chairs in the Emergency Department alone.
The overall figure is the fourth highest ever recorded at any Irish hospital, with that number exceeded at UHL on February 6th and 7th this year, when nurses recorded 138 and 150 respectively, and on May 29th, when the figure was 141.
The Dooradoyle facility is almost three times busier than the next busiest hospital today; Cork University Hospital, where 47 patients were left waiting for a bed, and represents almost a quarter of all those on trolleys at the country’s 32 hospitals combined.
