The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisations is raising concern over a “high risk event”, as trolley number hit winter levels at hospitals across the country today.
The latest figures show there were 592 admitted patients without a bed at hospitals across the country, with University Hospital Limerick once again recording the highest level of overcrowding.
The nurses’ union says there were 101 patients on trolleys at the Dooradoyle facility during morning rounds, 37 of those in the Emergency Department.
The INMO is concerned concerned about the spread of infections such as Strep A, Norovirus and indeed COVID-19 saying a spread of viruses is going to have a “detrimental impact on patient flow throughout our hospitals over the coming weeks”.
It adds “each hospital group and the HSE must outline immediately what they are doing to reduce the pressure in these intolerable environments.”
