Bed cuts leave Limerick emergency department unsafe: nursing union

A SENIOR nursing union official has described conditions at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital’s emergency department in Limerick as “dangerous and unsafe”.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) industrial relations officer for the midwest, Mary Fogarty, was speaking ahead of the results of a ballot today for industrial action by 60 nurses at the hospital’s emergency department.

Ms Fogarty said: “The A&E unit is not able to cope with the reconfiguration of services in the hospital. The A&E nurses have huge health and safety concerns over the unit.”