328 patients on trolleys as union warns crisis is 'again rearing its head'

328 patients on trolleys as union warns crisis is 'again rearing its head'

263 patients are waiting in the emergency department, while 65 are in wards elsewhere in the hospital. File picture

More than 300 patients are waiting for beds in hospitals today as a union on Tuesday warned that the trolley crisis is “again rearing its head”. 

Some 328 patients are waiting on trolleys in Irish hospitals today.

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