331 people on trolleys around the country

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Latest figures show there are 331 people on trolleys at hospitals across the country.

According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation there are 19 patients without a bed at South Tipp General.

The Clonmel hospital had no-one on trolleys yesterday.

University Hospital Limerick – which serves North Tipperary – has 20 people around the Emergency Department and in overflow areas of wards.

The Mater hospital in Dublin is the most overcrowded with 40 people in need of a bed while there are 37 at St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny.