INMO trolley watch: 427 people waiting for beds across Irish hospitals

According to figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwvies Association (INMO), the hospital with the worst overcrowding this morning in University Hospital Limerick with 92 people without beds.
INMO trolley watch: 427 people waiting for beds across Irish hospitals

Kenneth Fox

There are a total of 427 people waiting on trollies across Irish hospitals on Monday morning.

That includes 294 patients waiting in the emergency department, while 133 are in wards elsewhere in the hospital.

According to figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwvies Association (INMO), the hospital with the worst overcrowding this morning is University Hospital Limerick with 92 people without beds.

That is followed by Sligo University Hospital with 48 people waiting on trollies, followed by University Hospital Galway and Cork University Hospital with 39 and 38 people without beds respectively.

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