LIMERICK’S University Hospital in Dooradoyle had the second highest number of people waiting for a bed on trolleys outside Dublin in the month of February.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) recorded 709 patients on trolleys for the month of February this year, in comparison to 534 for the same month last year.
The figure has zoomed up in comparison to 2013, when 329 people were recorded as having to wait for beds but this was in part due to the fact that until 2014, only those patients waiting in the Emergency Department were recorded.
Patients who had been deemed ill enough to be admitted but for whom there were no beds available and were waiting in temporary wards only began being counted last year.
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