Nurses are to stage a ‘work to rule’ this Wednesday morning in protest at overcrowding in the accident and emergency unit of the Mid-Western Regional Hospital.
Last week nurses at the hospital suspended industrial action after they were invited by HSE management to resume talks to address the increased pressure on beds at the hospital.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) said there were 42 patients on trolleys throughout the hospital waiting for a bed this Tuesday.
It said 25 of the patients were scattered throughout the inpatient wards and 17 were on trolleys in the emergency department.
The INMO claims problems have worsened since the centralisation of trauma, cancer and surgical services at the hospital last year.
The decision to ‘work to rule’ was taken at a meeting of both INMO and SIPTU members at the hospital on Tuesday afternoon.
