2019 has started on a rather negative note for Irish hospitals, as there are 600 people languishing on trolleys today, according to figures just released by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO).
This is the highest figure recorded since March of last year.
University Hospital Limerick once again tops the shameful list, with 59 patients suffering while waiting for a bed, followed by South Tipperary Hospital with 50, and Cork University Hospital with 48.
Decades of poor investments and gross mismanagement on the HSE’s part has led to a chronically underfunded and understaffed sector which puts patients’ lives at risk the moment they set foot in the medical facility.