15,000 patients await treatment

MORE than 15,000 patients are waiting for treatment at Tallaght Hospital, according to figures obtained by the Labour Party.

More than 14,000 of these are outpatients, including 1,702 children, 80 of whom are waiting six to 12 months for treatment.

Among adult inpatients, the biggest waiting list is in orthopaedics, where 487 people are awaiting treatment. For adult outpatients, urology has the biggest waiting list, with 2,556.