Letters to the Editor: CUH and MUH staff went above and beyond in trying conditions

A reader pays tribute to hospital staff, and others look at issues including the Middle East conflict, rural transport, and hotels 'price gouging' around events such as Bruce Springsteen's gigs

A reader pays tribute to the care his relatives received in the Mercy University Hospital (above) and Cork University Hospital. File picture: Denis Scannell

In the recent past, two of my close relatives were admitted to hospitals via ambulances, one to the Mercy University Hospital, Cork, and the other to Cork University Hospital.

On my many hospital visits during a period of two months, with excess admissions and confinements at record levels, I observed the emergency departments overwhelmed, many staff stressed by heavy workloads, reminiscent of a movie war setting.