46 trolleys at hospital ‘a record new low’

THE presence of 46 patients on trolleys at Cork University Hospital’s A&E department was a “record new low” in healthcare, it was claimed yesterday.

It also prompted a nurses’ organisation to accuse the HSE of being “a tyrannical regime which is not providing patients the standard of care befitting a developed country”.

Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) industrial relations officer Patsy Doyle warned the numbers on trollies could be exceeded if the HSE closes other acute hospitals in Cork city and county.