Limerick hospital cancels procedures due to high trolley numbers

University Hospital Limerick today saw the highest number of patients on trolleys in any Irish hospital since the INMO started monitoring in 2006

University Hospital Limerick. Picture: Dan Linehan

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has called for an emergency plan for a hospital in Limerick due to overcrowding.

The union said that 126 patients are on trolleys in University Hospital Limerick (UHL), the highest number of patient overcrowding in any Irish hospital since the union began its TrolleyWatch in 2006, it claimed.