The government claims 190 extra emergency department beds will be opened in the coming weeks.
It’s part of a bid to ease pressure on already stretched hospitals.
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University Hospital Limerick is the most overcrowded today with 76 patients on trolleys while South Tipp General in Clonmel has 31.
However Labour’s Health Spokesman – Tipperary TD Alan Kelly – says the extra beds are not enough, particularly for chronically overcrowded hospitals like UHL.
