Nurses will vent their frustration with overcrowding in Clare and Limerick today when they begin a ballot for industrial action at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Dooradoyle.
The Irish Nurses Organisation is conducting the ballot after extra patients on in-patient wards in Limerick to cut the number of people waiting on trollies in the A and E.
Nurses say that patient numbers on the wards are now unsafe, and are also voicing long standing concerns about a reduction in bed numbers in the mid-west since the reconfiguration of services between Ennis, Nenagh and Limerick.
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The result of the ballot will be known by next week, but INO Mid West Spokesperson Mary Fogarty is hoping industrial action won’t be necessary
