Cork University Hospital has highest number on trolleys

Cork University Hospital has the highest number of people on trolleys in Ireland today, according to the latest daily figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO).

There are 69 people currently on trolleys in CUH, ahead of University Hospital Limerick, usually the most overcrowded hospital in the country, where there are 60 people on trolleys.

The CUH figures includes 47 people on trolleys in the Emergency Department and 22 in a ward elsewhere, while there are a further 23 people on trolleys in the Mercy University Hospital and one in Bantry General Hospital, meaning a total of 93 people in Cork are being treated in hospital without a bed.

So far this month, 255 people have been treated on trolleys in CUH, 47 in the Mercy and 20 in Bantry.

Last month, 1,017 people received treatment on trolleys in CUH, the second highest in Ireland after University Hospital Limerick.