Two Sligo Local Electoral Areas have highest Covid rates nationally
Two Local Electoral Areas in Co. Sligo have the highest 14 day incidence rate in the country according to the latest statistics. Accurate as of Tuesday, the 14th of March, the Sligo/Strandhill area had a rate of 2,636 infections per 100,000 population followed by Sligo/Drumcliffe on 2,388. The national rate…
52 waiting for a hospital bed and 51 Covid-19 patients in the north west
Sligo University Hospital has the fifth highest number of people nationwide receiving treatment for Covid-19 with 34, one of whom is in the ICU. 17 people with the virus are also in Letterkenny University Hospital with one also in the ICU there. 610 people are in a n Irish hospital…
82 waiting for beds in NW hospitals
More than 80 people are waiting for beds in the north west’s two main hospitals today. Forty-three are waiting in Letterkenny University Hospital, with 39 waiting in Sligo University Hospital. Overall throughout the country today, 524 people in hospitals are waiting for beds.
Sixty-one patients in NW hospitals waiting for beds
Sixty-one patients are waiting for beds in the north west’s two main hospitals this morning. Thirty-seven are in Letterkenny University Hospital, with 24 in Sligo University Hospital. Overall throughout the country today, almost 500 people are in hospitals waiting for beds.
326 people waiting for hospital bed in the north west this week
15% of all patients waiting for a hospital bed in the country this week have been based in the north west. 326 people have been on trolleys in Sligo and Letterkenny University Hospitals since Monday which includes 74 across both hospitals today. 2,150 patients have been on trolleys nationally since…
Yearly, monthly, today’s trolley figures for Sligo, Letterkenny hospitals
Sligo University Hospital was among the worst affected in the country when it came to overcrowding during the past year. In total for 2021, 2,921 patients had to wait for beds in the hospital. However, the figures for 2017 and 2018 were worse,. having been 3,133 and 3,557 respectively. The…
70 hospital patients in NW waiting for beds
Seventy hospital patients in the north west are waiting for beds today. Forty-four of them are in Letterkenny University Hospital and 26 in Sligo University Hospital. Only two hospitals have more patients waiting that in Letterkenny; they are University Hospital Galway with 47and University Hospital Limerick with 78. Overall throughout…