LUH one of the most overcrowded hospitals in Ireland today
Hospitals outside of Dublin are the worst hit in terms of overcrowding levels today. Letterkenny’s figures have spiked again with 34 people on trolleys today making it one of the three worst-affected hospitals along with Cork and Limerick. Galway University Hospital has 23 people on trolleys today and the figures…
Full Capacity Protocol at LUH has lead to cancellation of one third of surgeries
A consultant surgeon at Letterkenny University Hospital has said the continued trolley crisis is leading to more and more surgeries being cancelled at the hospital. Peter O’Rourke says every time the full capacity protocol is implemented at the hospital all non-life threatening surgeries are immediately cancelled. In 2016 alone the…
Full Capacity Protocol in place once again at LUH
The Full Capacity Protocol is in place again at Letterkenny University Hospital today. The Saolta Hospital Group is apologising to families as they continue to deal with extremely busy conditions at the hospital’s emergency department today where there are 21 people on trolleys. In a statement today, the group is…
Forty-six people on trolleys in Sligo and Letterkenny
The number of patients on hospital trolleys in the North West remains high again today. There are a total of 46 people waiting for a bed; that’s only two fewer than yesterday. The number in Sligo University Hospital has gone down from 30 yesterday to 25 today. In Letterkenny University…
48 on hospital trolleys in North West today
There are 30 patients on trolleys today in Sligo and another 18 in Letterkenny. The figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation show that numbers on trolleys have spiked again today with almost 600 people on trolleys again. University Hospital Limerick is the most overcrowded with 46 people in…
Fianna Fail says lives will be lost due to overcrowding crisis
Fianna Fáil claims people’s lives will be lost because of the hospital overcrowding crisis. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation say there were 601 patients on trolleys earlier today – the third highest figure so far this year. Fifty of those patients are on trolleys at Letterkenny and Sligo University…
Increase in number of people on hospital trolleys in NW
There are eight more people waiting for a bed in hospitals in the North West today. Yesterday, the figure was 42; today it’s 50. 28 of these are in Letterkenny University Hospital, five more than yesterday. In Sligo University Hospital, there are 22 people waiting, three more than yesterday. In…