Overcrowding at Limerick hospital slammed as ‘utterly unacceptable’

"The hospital has a hundred extra beds more than last year, but it still has the highest numbers of patients without beds in the country

Some 81 patients are on trolleys in University Hospital Limerick. Picture: Dan Linehan

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has hit out at overcrowding at a Limerick hospital saying that it is “utterly unacceptable” with the pandemic still going on.

The daily trolley watch figures from the union found that University Hospital Limerick has 81 patients waiting on trolleys.