Widow of man found unresponsive on UHL trolley 'vindicated' by Hiqa report

Marie McMahon says the HIQA report backs up everything campaigners have been saying. Picture: Brendan Gleeson

A woman who has campaigned tirelessly for change at University Hospital Limerick since her husband died on a trolley said she feels “vindicated” by a damning report on the crisis in the emergency department. 

Health watchdog HIQA has issued a scathing assessment of the hospital, highlighting that people have been left waiting for a bed in the emergency department for as long as 116 hours, and almost two days for urgent scans.