Overcrowding sees 66 on trolleys in Limerick

Hospital overcrowding continued yesterday, with 500 people waiting for an in-patient bed, according to the Irish Nurses’ and Midwives’ Organisation.

There were 342 patients on trolleys in emergency departments (EDs) and 158 were inappropriately placed on already full wards, the INMO said.

University Hospital Limerick, with 66 patients waiting, had the highest number. St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny, had 42, the second-highest number, and University Hospital Galway had 41.