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Trolley Crisis Hits New Record

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There's the highest number of patients on trolleys today since records began.

The INMO claims there's 760 people without a bed in hospitals across the country.

That's enough people to more than fill St James', which is the largest in the country,

The worst hit hospital in Dublin is the Mater, where there's 37 people on trolleys or in already full wards.

Outside of the capital, the worst-hit hospitals include:
 
University Hospital Limerick - 92
Cork University Hospital - 56
University Hospital Galway – 47
South Tipperary General Hospital – 40
 

INMO General Secretary, Phil Ní Sheaghdha, said:
 
“Ireland’s beleaguered health service continues to break records in the worst possible way. Our members are working in impossible conditions to provide the best care they can.
 
“The excuse that this is all down to the flu simply doesn’t hold. There are always extra patients in winter, but we simply do not get the extra capacity to cope. This is entirely predictable, yet we seemingly fail to deal with it every year.

 

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