Nurses Union Slams Overcrowding At Cork University Hospital
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation have described the situation as "intolerable"
Patients at Cork University Hospital are the real victims of the overcrowding crisis.
That's according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation following a week of severe overcrowding at CUH.
Figures from the INMO showed an average of 40 people each day were being treated on trolleys.
The INMO say their members were pushed to breaking point, as patients were treated in public hallways with no privacy afforded to them.
The organisation says the problem is not just lack of space in ED's but also the lack of acute beds in public hospitals.
Speaking to RedFM News the INMO's Mary Rose Carroll says the situation is intolerable:
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