A&E Crisis - Lie down and be counted

It may not have overshadowed the elaborate commemorative ceremonies planned for tomorrow’s marking of the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising, but the Lie Down And Be Counted protest delivered another apt message to the Government.

Outside the Dáil more than 100 people lay on the street, representing the record number of 495 patients who languished on hospital trolleys on a particular day last month, which was forty worse than the previous worst day.

The protest, which was supported by the Irish Nurses Organisation, was organised by Patients Together who are well-used holding vigils and delivering petitions to the Department of Health to highlight the misery of patients consigned to trolleys.