INMO holding meeting to discuss overcrowding in Emergency Departments
456 patients are in need of a bed in hospitals across Ireland.
According to the latest figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives’ Organisation, University Hospital Limerick is the most overcrowded - with 66 people
on trolleys or on wards awaiting admission to a bed.
36 people are waiting on a trolley and in overflow areas of wards in Cork University and the Mercy University Hospitals.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation are to hold a press conference following this evenings meeting of its Executive Council.
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