Patients in 'inhumane' conditions at UHL due to overcrowding

Privacy and dignity issues aired amid concern that plans for a new Limerick regional hospital will be put on back burner until smaller hospitals improve

University Hospital Limerick. Picture: Dan Linehan

Patients face “inhumane” conditions due to overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick (UHL), with doctors calling on health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill to act.

Concern is growing that plans for a new regional hospital in Limerick are being put on the back burner until smaller hospitals in the MidWest are improved — a move one consultant said did not make sense.