University Hospital Galway is the second most overcrowded in the country again today, with more than 50 patients on trolleys.
There are 54 patients admitted at UHG today for whom no beds are available, spread across the hospital’s emergency department and wards.
In the emergency department at UHG, there are 40 patients on trolleys as of this morning, and another 14 in the wards.
At Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe, there are a further 8 patients on trolleys, 3 in the emergency department and 5 in the wards.
Nationwide there are 509 patients on trolleys in Irish hospitals today according to INMO Trolley/Ward Watch figures.
University Hospital Limerick is, as always, having an extremely poor day with 105 patients admitted without a ned available today.
This is followed by University Hospital Galway (54), Cork University Hospital (48), Sligo University Hospital (39), and the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital (24).
