University Hospital Galway is extremely overcrowded again today with 70 patients waiting on trolleys.
INMO figures show that UHG is the second most overcrowded in the country for the third time this week.
There are 51 patients on trolleys in the emergency department at UHG, and another 19 without a bed in the wards.
At Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe there are a further 8 patients who have been admitted with no bed available for them.
Five people are on trolleys in the ED at Portiuncula, and three are in the hospital’s wards.
There are a total of 555 patients on trolleys in Irish hospitals nationwide today INMO figures show.
University Hospital Limerick is the worst affected with 85, followed by UHG (70), Cork University Hospital (46), and Sligo University Hospital (38).
