Highest number of patients on trolleys today since start of pandemic



Letterkenny University Hospital has the second highest number of patients in the country waiting for beds today.

Fifty-seven patients are waiting in the hospital, made up of 21 in the emergency department and 36 in wards and elsewhere.

Thirty patients are waiting for beds in Sligo University Hospital, with 21 in the emergency department and 9 in wards and elsewhere.

In hospitals throughout the country, today sees the highest number of patients on trolleys in one day since the start of the Covid pandemic.

506 admitted patients were waiting for beds this morning, according to today’s INMO Trolley Watch.

393 patients are waiting in emergency departments while 113 are in wards elsewhere in hospitals.

 



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