Nurses blame Government for beds crisis

BLAME for the serious overcrowding problems being experienced by acute hospitals rests squarely with the Government, the Irish Nurses’ Organisation insisted yesterday.

“It’s a Government problem,” said INO deputy general secretary David Hughes. “Beds are not being provided and the hospitals just can’t cope.”

And, he said, the focus over the weekend on the overcrowding problems experienced by Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital was almost misleading because other hospitals were experiencing similar difficulties.