Hospital overcrowding a ‘New Year nightmare’

RECORD overcrowding at Letterkenny General Hospital created a “New Year nightmare” for patients and staff, it was claimed yesterday.

Fine Gael TD Dinny McGinley said there were 35 patients on trolleys on Tuesday night as the accident and emergency crisis at the hospital escalated to an all-time high.

“Senior staff at Letterkenny are describing the situation at the hospital as horrendous,” he said.