No short term fix to Limerick hospital bed shortage, says chief

The chief executive of the hospital at the centre of the trolley crisis has admitted there will be no increase in beds there for at least another year.

Colette Cowan, chief executive of the University Hospital Limerick (UHL) group, also criticised politicians for using terms such as “catastrophe” in the Dáil in relation to the hospital without going there and seeing the work being done by staff.