There are calls coming from the country’s top medical professionals for the Government to step in and seriously address the current healthcare crisis after there was a record number of patients waiting on hospital trolleys this afternoon.
According to the latest figures published by the INMO there were in total 612 waiting people for a bed in hospitals all across the country. The figures showed that the University Hospital Limerick was the most overcrowded with 46 people in need of a bed.
The calls come after figures also showed there were almost 94,000 patients on trolleys in 2016 – compared to 50,000 in 2007 when the situation was declared a ‘National Emergency’.