Health Minister commits to additional beds for A&E's in Cork
It follows a meeting of the Emergency Taskforce Implementation Group.
The Minister for Health has committed to opening an extra 300 hospital beds by the end of the year to try and tackle overcrowding in Emergency Departments.
Leo Varadkar held a meeting earlier with the Emergency Taskforce Implementation Group to discuss ways to alleviate the problem.
The latest figures from the INMO identified CUH as one of the hospitals in the country with the highest levels of overcrowding and it's understood that 48 of these beds are being placed in CUH and Mercy University Hospital.
Minister Varadkar says he will impose heavy fines on hospitals that fail to meet targets for cutting waiting lists.
But Fergal Hickey, Communications Officer with the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine, says hospitals are stretched across the board.
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