Kenny urged to visit A&E to witness overcrowding

A patient recovering from a brain haemorrhage who had to spend hours on a hospital trolley in a vending machine corridor has called on the Taoiseach and minister for health to visit the overcrowded emergency department.

Earlier this week, 29 patients were on trolleys in the emergency department & at South Tipperary General Hospital in Clonmel. Some were put in trolleys on general hospital corridors and, in the case of Declan McGee, 43, beside a number of vending machines.

After being given a ward bed on Tuesday night, Mr McGee said yesterday he had spent 30 hours in total on a trolley, including Monday night in a paediatric treatment room.