UNIVERSITY Hospital Limerick (UHL) was the most overcrowded hospital nationwide this morning (Friday), with 75 patients on trolleys waiting for beds.
Figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) showed that 32 patients were on trolleys in theemergency department, with a further 43 waiting on wards elsewhere.
These figures for UHL are 150 per cent above the hospital with the next highest overcrowding tally, Tallaght University Hospital which had 30 patients waiting for beds – all of which are listed by INMO as being in the hospital’s emergency department.
UHL has remained the most overcrowded hospital nationally throughout the month of February so far, with numbers for those waiting for beds reaching a monthly high of 86 on Tuesday, February 7.
Other hospitals outside Dublin represented a fraction of the numbers presented at UHL, with 28 patients waiting for beds in Cork University Hospital; 24 in University Hospital Galway; 13 in University Hospital Kerry and four each in Nenagh General and Tipperary University Hospitals.
