'Worst hospital overcrowding' since pandemic began as 380 on trolleys

Cork University Hospital is the worst-hit, with 47 people waiting for a bed. Picture: Dan Linehan

More than 380 patients are on hospital trolleys in Irish hospitals this morning, in what the INMO is calling the "worst hospital overcrowding" since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.

While today is the highest number of patients without beds since March 2020, the second-highest was on May 11, 2021, when 376 were waiting.