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There are twenty people on trolleys today at Sligo University Hospital. The latest figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation show that it has the second highest figures outside Dublin. University hospital Limerick has 22 people on trolleys today, followed by 20 in Sligo, 19 in Cork and 18…

The number of people waiting on trolleys in Sligo has risen sharply in the past decade. Sligo University Hospital had a sharp increase with 47 on trolleys in 2006 rising to 180 last month while Letterkenny saw a dramatic decrease from 204 ten years ago to 38 in May 2016.…

There are 18 people on trolleys in the North West’s hospitals today. That’s made up of 17 in Sligo and one in Letterkenny. In the country overall, the number of patients waiting for hospital beds is back up to almost 300. 299 patients are on trolleys or in hospital wards,…