'We expect action': Families impacted by overcrowding to meet Taoiseach as he visits Limerick hospital

Photographs taken from inside the UHL emergency department on Wednesday this week showed a doctor having to squeeze sideways through a wall of patents on trolleys parked along both sides of a corridor
'We expect action': Families impacted by overcrowding to meet Taoiseach as he visits Limerick hospital

A female doctor squeezes sideways to get through trolleys on either side of her in the cramped ED at UHL on Wednesday. 

Loved ones of people who have died in University Hospital Limerick (UHL) during periods of high levels of patient overcrowding are to meet privately with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar today after he takes a tour of the most overcrowded hospital in the country.

Photographs taken from inside the UHL emergency department on Wednesday this week showed a doctor having to squeeze sideways through a wall of patents on trolleys parked along both sides of a corridor.

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