The two main hospitals serving Tipperary account for nearly 20% of patients without a bed today.
291 people who have been admitted to hospital are being cared for on trolleys in the Emergency Department or in already full wards.
- Advertisement -
45 of these are at University Hospital Limerick. Once again the Dooradoyle facility – which caters for North Tipperary, Limerick and Clare – is the most overcrowded in the country.
Frontline staff at Tipperary University Hospital in Clonmel are caring for 11 patients on trolleys today according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.
