University Hospital Galway is the third most overcrowded in the country today, with 44 patients on trolleys.
There are 36 patients admitted to the Emergency Department on trolleys today, and a further 8 without a bed in the wards.
At Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe there are a total of 8 admitted patients who don’t have a bed today.
Five of them are on trolleys in the Emergency Departments, and another 3 are in the wards.
Nationwide there are 559 people in Irish hospitals for whom no bed is available today according to INMO figures.
The worst affected is University Hospital Limerick (108), followed by Cork University Hospital (45), University Hospital Galway (44), and Sligo University Hospital (38).
