Letters to the Editor: Disgraceful treatment of terminally ill 86-year-old

We would really love it if he could stay at home but we are waiting two weeks for the palliative care team, says daughter-in-law

It’s an utter disgrace to treat a terminally-ill 86-year-old man who is in extreme pain, and very frail and frightened by leaving him on a trolley for hours on end at University Hospital Limerick, says a letter writer..

My father-in-law, who is terminally ill with cancer, has been in and out of University Hospital Limerick for the last few weeks and as I am writing this — late on Saturday, February 5 — he has been on a trolley in the emergency department for the last eight hours.

The last time he was in there he was transferred by taxi to another hospital without any of his family being notified of this.