Five Munster hospitals among 20 most over-crowded in Ireland, study shows

Stephen McMahon of the IPA said the public should be told why extra beds promised for hospitals are not alleviating the looming Covid-crisis.

Patients at University Hospital Limerick were the most affected the IPA found with 412 nights on trolleys counted. Picture: Don Moloney

Five Munster hospitals were among the 20 most over-crowded to mid-October, analysis of trolley figures by the Irish Patient Association has found.

The analysis relies on daily trolley-counts collected and published by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) which were then compiled by the patients’ association into a ‘league table’.