Major hospital overcrowding continues

Photo © Pat Flynn

University Hospital Limerick is by far the busiest hospital in the country this afternoon.

57 are patients on trolleys at the Dooradoyle facility, which serves North Tipperary – with 35 of those in the emergency department, and 22 in overflow areas of already full wards.

CUH and University Hospital Galway are the next busiest with 40 patients without a bed in each.

There are 15 patients on trolleys at South Tipperary General Hospital in Clonmel, with 3 in Nenagh General.