There’s been a major spike in overcrowding at the region’s main hospital today.
Latest figures from the INMO show that 50 people were left waiting on a bed at University Hospital Limerick this morning – up from 33 yesterday.
26 of those are on trolleys in the emergency department, with the remaining 24 being accommodated in overflow areas of wards.
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It’s nine more than the next busiest facility and comes on a day when 310 people are without a bed nationwide, meaning the Dooradoyle facility accounts for over 16 percent of the number of people without a bed at Irish hospitals today.
