LETTERKENNY University Hospital (LUH) was among the five most overcrowded hospitals in the country last month.
Over the first month of the year there were 709 people awaiting beds in LUH, averaging out at around 23 per day.
This compares to just 247 patients waiting on beds ten years ago in January 2014.
Nationally for the month there were 12,132 patients went without a hospital bed this January. Of these 278 were children.
The worst five hospitals country-wide in descending order were: University Hospital Limerick 2,073; Cork University Hospital 1,632; University Hospital Galway 1,041; Letterkenny University Hospital 709; Sligo University Hospital 701.
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