Elderly woman waited 27 hours for trolley at University Hospital Limerick

'My mother was not seen by a doctor for 19 hours'

Marie O’Connor’s mother was advised to attend the emergency department at University Hospital Limerick. Picture: Brendan Gleeson

The daughter of an 88-year-old woman with influenza who could not even get a trolley between two Limerick hospitals for 27 hours said it is impossible to imagine how bad the trolley crisis is until you are stuck in it.

Marie O’Connor’s mother was advised to attend University Hospital Limerick (UHL) by a GP service on December 27 due to shortness of breath and other respiratory symptoms.