Cork University Hospital cancels ops again due to overcrowding

One of the country’s largest hospitals has, for the second time in a week, cancelled operations and asked people not to attend its emergency department due to chronic overcrowding.

Management at Cork University Hospital issued the appeal as it struggled to cope yesterday with what hospital chief executive Tony McNamara described as “a critical situation”.

The HSE said over 2,000 patients had presented to the hospital’s ED in the last 10 days.