Business as usual as Limerick patients bear chaos with tea and makeshift seats

It was chaotic business as usual at University Hospital Limerick’s emergency department yesterday.

UHL topped the daily trolley table of shame with 54 patients. Up to 70 patients jammed the waiting/reception area at around 3pm.

So crammed were conditions that one 14-year-old girl from Nenagh with a suspected burst appendix had to sit on a window sill as her parents stood beside her.