Patients ‘dying of neglect’ as trolley rates hit record in Limerick

University Hospital Limerick. File picture: Dan Linehan

Patients are “dying of neglect” at University Hospital Limerick, advocates have claimed, as overcrowding hit a national record high of 150 people without a bed yesterday.

A protest is now being planned for outside the Dáil, with organisers urging people from Limerick, Clare, and Tipperary to attend.