There are 22 patients on trolleys in the north west waiting for a hospital bed today.
17 of them are in Letterkenny University Hospital and 5 in Sligo University Hospital.
In University Hospital Galway, the figure is 19.
The most overcrowded hospital today is University Hospital Limerick, where 40 patients are waitng for a bed.
The figure overall for the country’s hospitals is 339.
