Staff 'overwhelmed' as Limerick hospital treats highest number of Covid patients

Claims that some patients in the Limerick ED were 'waiting over 100 hours for a bed'

Overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick, which has 142 confirmed cases of Covid-19.

Staff at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) are "overwhelmed" by increasing Covid-19 cases.

On Thursday, UHL had the most confirmed cases (142) of any hospital in the country, followed by Cork University Hospital (139), Galway University Hospital (127), St Vincent’s Hospital, Dublin, (123), and Drogheda hospital (110).