Hospital overcrowding: 510 people waiting for beds in Irish hospitals

Ellen O'Donoghue

There were 510 admitted patients waiting for beds in hospitals around Ireland on Tuesday, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation's trolley watch.

There were a total of 331 patients waiting in emergency departments, while 179 were in wards elsewhere in the hospital.

The most overcrowded hospital was University Hospital Limerick, with 84 patients on trolleys, while there were 64 patients in University Hospital Galway without beds, and 52 patients on trolleys in Cork University Hospital.