There are almost 80 on trolleys again today – nationally the figure stands at 537 with nurses in Dublin set to stage a lunchtime action over the situation.
The misery for ill patients forced to spend days on end stuck on an uncomfortable trolley in a hospital hallway is continuing for dozens of Tipperary people today.
Latest figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation show there are currently 34 people in that situation at South Tipperary General Hospital – and a further 45 in the ED and hallways in University Hospital Limerick
The combined figure is down just 1 on yesterday's numbers.
Speaking to Fran Curry on Tipp Today Declan Dunphy- who was a visitor to South Tipp General last night and again this morning says conditions are shocking
Nationwide the figure stands at 537 and the INMO says hospitals must take immediate action whenever an Emergency Department goes into an overcrowding situation.
Its members at Saint Vincent’s in Dublin are staging a lunchtime protest to highlight the chronic situation
INMO Industrial Relations Officer Philip McAnenly, says large number of patients are regularly admitted to St. Vincent's with no prospects of getting a bed:
Meanwhile separate data- also released by the nursing union today show overcrowding levels at the Clonmel facility in February are continuing to rise year on year.
The figures show that in Feb 2014 and 2015 there were 267 people on trolleys in the ED and Wards – that rose to 303 in the month just gone, and this figure is unlikely to fall anytime soon given the number of respiratory infections and other conditions such as swine flu that hospitals nationwide are dealing with.
