ANOTHER record has been broken at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) with 138 patients on trolleys.
On Tuesday morning at UHL, a total of 138 patients were on trolleys at UHL according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation. Of this 138, 65 were in the emergency department with a further 73 on trolleys in wards across the region’s main hospital.
Following the Bank Holiday weekend, it sees UHL break yet another record with regards to patients on trolleys in a single day. The previous record for the number of patients waiting for a bed at the hospital was 132 from Monday January 22nd.
It is the fifteenth day in a row that figures at UHL have exceeded 100.
Of all patients waiting on trolleys in Ireland on Tuesday, twenty percent of them were in UHL.
General Secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha said that “we are once again seeing another predictable post-bank holiday trolley surge in hospitals around the country”. She added, “It is clear that the system is now completely overwhelmed. We need targeted measures to tackle this crisis, particularly in the Midwest where overcrowding is completely out of hand”.
A spokesperson for the Mid-West Hospital Campaign stated, “we are dying of neglect”.
