Some 64 patients are in University Hospital Galway without a bed today, the INMO’s latest figures show.
There are 605 people in total on trolleys in hospitals across the country as the severe overcrowding continues and shows no sign of improving.
Nine patients were without a bed at Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe when the data was taken at 11am.
INMO General Secretary Phil Ni Sheaghdha said this week that oppressive overcrowding is not just confined to one or two hospitals, but that overcrowding challenges are present in each part of the country.
“Our members want to be able to provide safe care to patients but also be assured that their own health and wellbeing is being protected – neither are guaranteed when they are working in overcrowded conditions where respiratory infections are rife,” she said.
“The HSE and other public sector healthcare employers must assure nurses, midwives and other healthcare workers and indeed the public at large that they are taking extraordinary action to ensure that all barriers to providing safe care at this time are removed.”
