525 patients are on trolleys at hospitals across the country this lunchtime.
Many of them are at hospitals serving Tipperary.
According to the INMO University Hospital Limerick – which provides Emergency Department cover for North Tipp – and Cork University Hospital are the most overcrowded with 57 people waiting for a bed.
Front line staff at South Tipp General in Clonmel are also under pressure today with 25 patients without a bed today.
