Doctors warn: 350 will die unless hospital trolley crisis is addressed in budget

Three hundred and fifty people will die needlessly in hospital emergency departments next year unless Health Minister Simon Harris definitively addresses the trolley count crisis in next week’s budget, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith, Elaine Loughlin and Juno McEnroe

The Irish Association of Emergency Medicine (IAEM) issued the dire warning last night as it urged the Government to prioritise health, despite promises of tax cuts and across-the-board welfare payment rises.