79 people waiting for beds in NW’s two main hospitals
Letterkenny University Hospital is again the second most-overcrowded in the country with 54 patients waiting for beds. Thirty-five people are waiting in Sligo University Hospital. The INMO is calling for political intervention to tackle the trolley crisis. HSE chief executive Paul Reid is concerned over the impact Covid is having…
Letterkenny hospital the most overcrowded in country
Letterkenny University Hospital is the most overcrowded hospital in the country today. It has 48 patients waiting for beds, with 12 in the emergency department and 36 in wards and elsewhere. There are 19 patients waiting for beds in Sligo University Hospital, 13 of whom are in the emergency department.…
Letterkenny hospital second most overcrowded in country today
Letterkenny University Hospital is the second most overcrowded hospital in the country today. It has 40 patients waiting for beds, made up of six in the emergency department and 34 in wards and elsewhere. Only University Hospital Limerick is more overcrowded, with 49 people waiting for beds. In Sligo University…
49 patients waiting for beds in Letterkenny hospital
There is little sign of the strain on the health service in the north west to ease today. According to the latest INMO trolley watch figures, Letterkenny University Hospital has the highest number of people in the country waiting for beds. There were 49 people waiting, with 11 of those…
Number of patients waiting for bed in Letterkenny hospital the third highest in country
Letterkenny University Hospital has the third highest number of people waiting on hospital beds in the country this morning. There are 48 people at the Donegal hospital waiting;11 are in the emergency Department and there are 37 elsewhere. Nationally there are 416 patients waiting on a hospital bed, including 21…
Donegal consultant protests over lack of hospital stroke unit
A consultant is staging a protest outside the hospital where he works over a lack of services in Co Donegal. Professor Ken Mulpeter is holding the demonstration at Letterkenny University Hospital this afternoon from 1pm. He says it’s an “embarrassment” that there is no Acute Stroke Unit at the facility.…
Overcrowding crisis to be discussed with Health Minister in Donegal today
The overcrowding crisis at Letterkenny University Hospital is one of a number of topics which will be discussed with Health minister Simon Harris on his visit to Donegal today. There are 22 people waiting for a hospital bed at the hospital this morning according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives…