Nurses have recorded a significant spike in the level of overcrowding at the region’s main hospital after the weekend.
The latest analysis from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation shows there were 131 admitted patients waiting for beds at University Hospital Limerick this morning, 53 of those in the Emergency Department alone.
- Advertisement -
The overall figure is more than double the next busiest facility; Cork University Hospital and represents almost a fifth of all patients left waiting on trolleys at the country’s 32 hospitals.
The figures show there was also 16 patients on trolleys at Ennis hospital this morning and 34 at Galway University Hospital.
