It’s another bad day for overcrowding at Galway’s hospital, with almost 70 patients on trolleys across the county this morning.
University Hospital Galway was the third most overcrowded in Ireland today, with 53 patients admitted with no beds available.
In the emergency departments at UHG there were 41 patients on trolleys INMO figures show, with another 12 people in the wards waiting for a bed.
At Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe, there are 16 patients on trolleys, 5 of them in the emergency department and 11 in the hospital wards.
Nationwide there were 586 people on trolleys in Irish hospitals this morning according to INMO Trolley/Ward Watch figures.
The worst affected hospitals are UH Limerick (106), Cork University Hospital (71), UHG (53), and Sligo University Hospital (32).
