Extra Capacity Needed At Cork Hospitals
Extra capacity is needed at hospitals across Cork.
That's according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation who are calling on the HSE to to implement emergency measures to tackle the trolley crisis.
The calls come after figures reveal that 1,700 people were waiting on trolleys in the first three days of this week. The highest the INMO have seen for the month of April since records first began.
Cork University Hospital was the most overcrowded for this period with 159 waiting for a bed.
The INMO says the time has come to go back to a regional structure that looks at services in totality and not in separate compartments.
Speaking to RedFM News, General Secretarty of the INMO, Phil Ni Sheaghda says there's no way safe levels of care can be delivered with this level of overcorwding and it's not acceptable:
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