Taskforce efforts to tackle UHL overcrowding 'hasn't borne fruit' as 98 wait on trolleys

Today's total is the highest number of patients without a bed at the beginning of June since the INMO began counting trolleys in 2006

More beds are “urgently” required in UHL, according to INMO Assistant Director of Industrial Relations, Mary Fogarty. File picture: Dan Linehan

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly's announcement of a taskforce to tackle hospital overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick "hasn’t borne any fruit" with 98 patients on trolleys today, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.

More beds are “urgently” required in UHL, according to INMO Assistant Director of Industrial Relations, Mary Fogarty. She said she is extremely concerned there has been no alleviation of the winter numbers as hospitals enter the summer months.