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Trolley Figures "Out Of Control" Across The Country

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23 people on trolleys in Naas General.

There were 23 patients awaiting beds in Naas General Hospital this morning, up 13 on yesterday.

A record number of patients are being treated on trolleys at hospitals across the country.

There are 603 people awaiting beds, the highest number since 4th February of 2020..

University Hospital Limerick is the worst hit, with 71 people on trolleys at the facility.

That's followed by 58 at Cork University Hospital and 46 at University Hospital Galway.

Letterkenny University Hospital at 44, St.Luke’s Kilkenny at 44, Sligo University Hospital at 43, and St. Vincent’s University Hospital at 37.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has called for urgent action on out of control trolley figures in Irish hospitals today.  

Naas Resident and INMO General Secretary, Phil Ní Sheaghdha commented: “The number of patients without a bed in our hospitals today is simply unacceptable and should not be tolerated.

"The fact that we have over six hundred patients on trolleys while COVID is still a very real feature in our hospitals is inexcusable. 

“Since the first week of January in particular, the INMO has been calling for urgent action to ensure that trolley numbers do not rise to unsustainable levels, yet here we are barely the second week of February with a dangerous amount of patients on trolleys. 

“This issue is not just confined to one part of the country, we are seeing huge amounts of patients waiting on trolleys.

"We are calling for the Emergency Department Taskforce to be convened and for emergency measures to be deployed in the areas worst hit.

“We cannot allow the health service to revert to form and allow pre-COVID levels of overcrowding to become the norm once again in our hospitals.

"Patients and nursing staff deserve better.

"If non-emergency services need to be curtailed in order to allow the HSE and hospital groups to get a handle on out of control trolley figures then that must be done.

“It is not acceptable to our members to allow overcrowding become an out of control problem once again,” added.

 

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