Patients travel as far as Dublin for treatment to avoid Limerick hospital overcrowding 

People aged in their 80s 'would rather take their chances at home with a potential heart attack or a potential stroke'

University Hospital Limerick was the most overcrowded hospital in the country again last month with 1,596 patients on trolleys. Picture: Dan Linehan

People requiring medical attention, including for potential heart attacks, are delaying or refusing treatment,  while others are going as far as Dublin to avoid University Hospital Limerick (UHL) amid the worst trolley figures on record.

UHL was the most overcrowded hospital in the country again last month with 1,596 patients on trolleys, according to figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation.