University Hospital Galway is the second most overcrowded hospital in the country today, with 45 patients on trolleys this morning.
INMO figures show that there are 39 patients on trolleys in the emergency department at UHG, and another 6 without beds in the wards.
At Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe there are a total of 8 people waiting on trolleys today, 2 in the ED and another 6 in the wards.
Nationwide there are 365 people on trolleys in Irish hospitals today, with the worst affected being University Hospital Limerick, UHG, and University Hospital Kerry.
In Limerick there are 90 patients without a bed, 37 of them in the emergency department and 53 in the wards.
At UH Kerry there 32 patients on trolleys today, all of them in the hospital’s emergency department.
