72 people who have been admitted to University Hospital Limerick have been left without a bed today.
Instead they are being cared for on trolleys around the Emergency Department or in wards elsewhere in the hospital which serves North Tipp, Limerick and Clare.
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According to figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation they are among 523 patients in a similar situation at medical facilities across the country.
TUH in Clonmel has 9 patients on trolleys around the ED as there are no beds available on wards while there is no overcrowding reported at Nenagh Hospital today.
