Martin: CUH staff admit patients will die due to overcrowding

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Martin: CUH staff admit patients will die due to overcrowding
Thu, 07 Nov, 2019 - 06:20
Liz Dunphy

Cork University Hospital staff have admitted that patients will die at the campus due to overcrowding — yet it has the highest numbers of people waiting on trolleys in the country.

A total of 65 patients waited for hospital beds in CUH yesterday., according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation’s Trolley Watch figures.

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