HUNDREDS of hospital patients waited on trolleys today but figures show that numbers were low in Donegal’s main health facility.
There were 537 people on hospital trollies, according to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) – but only eight of these were in Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH).
University Hospital Limerick’s figure of 108 people waiting for a bed was the highest in the country.
That was followed by St Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin (49), Sligo University Hospital (46), and Cork University Hospital (42).
The INMO stated that Letterkenny University Hospital had seven patients waiting in its emergency unit for a bed and one other patient waiting elsewhere for a bed.
It was only last month on April 9 that LUH was the second most overcrowded hospital in Ireland, according to the nurses’ union.