The UL Hospitals Group has been accused of deliberately attempting to ignore the consequences of overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick.
Based on parameters compiled by medical experts analysing the NHS in 2019, The MidWest Hospitals Campaign believes that “a minimum of 514 patients have died due to delays at Dooradoyle’s Emergency Department since last June.”
ULHG CEO Collette Cowan has described the allegations as “misleading and unhelpful” and has pointed to a 2021 audit of Irish facilities, which shows that UHL is within the expected range for in-hospital mortality.
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Marie McMahon from Ennistymon whose husband passed away on a trolley at UHL in 2018 says however that the devil is in the detail.
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