Hospital overcrowding crisis - HSE in much worse health than Angola

If Ireland’s ailing health service were a patient, it would be on life support. In a way, it already is, as we face an existential threat to a service that is lurching from crisis to crisis. Signs are that trolley numbers in hospitals have hit record highs this week.

It is a nationwide dilemma. Conditions at Cork University Hospital and the Mercy Hospital are said to be appalling, while flu levels have prompted visitor bans at several hospitals nationwide.