Patient overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick (Photo: David Raleigh)
Eilish O’Regan and David Raleigh
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More than 50 patients were waiting on trolleys for a bed for at least 24 hours this morning as hospital emergency departments struggled to cope with a winter surge.
The rise in flu as well as other respiratory illnesses, along with the cold weather, has worsened overcrowding in hospitals.