'This is simply obscene': 679 patients waiting on trolleys in Irish hospitals, highest figure of 2019

The figure is the second-highest ever recorded.

'This is simply obscene': 679 patients waiting on trolleys in Irish hospitals, highest figure of 2019

There are 679 patients waiting on trolleys in Irish hospitals today, the highest figure of the year so far.

The INMO's Trolley Watch figures found that 481 patients are waiting for beds in the emergency department with 198 waiting in wards elsewhere.

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