DONEGAL’s largest hospital has one of the highest emergency trolley figures in the country today.
Hundreds of hospital patients waited on trolleys and figures show that numbers were soaring in Donegal’s main health facility.
There were 272 people on hospital trolleys nationwide, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO).
The nurses’ union stated that 35 of these were in Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH).
It is the fourth highest in Ireland.
INMO produces hospital trolley figures.
Only University Hospital Limerick (49), which had the highest, Sligo University Hospita (43), Cork University Hospital (38), and St Vincent’s University Hospital (37) had more than LUH.
The INMO stated that Letterkenny University Hospital had nine patients waiting in its emergency unit for a bed and 26 patients waiting elsewhere for a bed.
It was only on April 9 past that LUH was the second most overcrowded hospital in Ireland, according to the nurses’ union.