New figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation show that South Tipperary General hospital has lost 14 beds since 2006.
The Clonmel Health facility has lost 13 beds and 1 ICU bed in the last 8 years…while University Hospital in Limerick has lost 5 ICU beds.
Elsewhere in Tipperary, the figures show that St Patrick's in Cashel has lost 11 elderly beds while there's been no bed closures in Nenagh hospital, the Dean Maxwell Community Nursing Unit in Roscrea, the Hospital of the Assumption in Thurles or in St Conlon's in Nenagh.
Meanwhile,
The INMO is calling for a nurse to patient ratio of one to four.
The annual delegate conference of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has heard that the odds of dying increase for every additional patient a nurse has.
Nurses have said that nothing has changed since the death of babies in Portlaoise and Savita Halappanavar in Galway.
