Nurses are calling for the HSE’s Emergency Taskforce to be convened to urgently address persistent overcrowding at the region’s main hospital.
It comes as the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has reported 118 patients on trolleys at University Hospital Limerick this morning, 72 of those in the Emergency Department.
The overall figure accounts for just over a quarter of the total number waiting to be admitted at hospitals across the country today.
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The INMO’s Midwest Representative, Mary Fogarty has been telling Clare FM’s Fiona Cahill that nurses are exhausted, overwhelmed and burnt out from the ongoing situation in Dooradoyle.
Listen back to the full interview here:
