by Louise Doyle
THE number of admitted patients who were on trolleys waiting for a bed at Letterkenny University Hospital yesterday rose by 19 per cent compared with the beginning of the month.
Thirty-one admitted patients were on trolleys in LUH yesterday without a bed.
The number was a rise of five patients on January 2, 2024, when 26 admitted patients were on trolleys without a bed.
Trolley Watch figures provided by Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) show 20 patients were on trolleys in wards of LUH yesterday, as they waited for a bed.
Eleven patients were on trolleys in the emergency department.
The figures for LUH were among the highest in the country as pressure and capacity issues show no sign of abating. University Hospital Limerick had the highest number of patients on Trolleys (96), followed by Cork University Hospital (78).
In all, 547 admitted patients were waiting for beds in hospitals around the country yesterday morning, according to the INMO – a 13 per cent jump from January 2, when 485 admitted patients nationally waited on a trolley for a hospital bed.
Of the 547 patients admitted to hospitals without a bed, the majority waited in the emergency department (391), while 156 were in wards elsewhere in the hospitals.
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