Overcrowding eases at UHL

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The number of patients without a bed at University Hospital Limerick has more than halved since yesterday.

According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation the Dooradoyle facility – which covers North Tipperary – has 17 people being cared for on trolleys or chairs compared with 35 yesterday.

The numbers waiting for a bed at South Tipp General has risen in the last 24 hours – up from 15 to 21.

Nationally the nursing union is reporting 406 patients being cared for on corridors around Emergency Departments or in overflow areas of wards today.