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Increase Of Almost 33% In The Number Of Patients On Trolleys At Naas General.

File image: Rolling News

There are 22 people on gurneys there today.

There's been an increase of almost a third  in the number of people on trolleys at Naas General.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation says that, on Friday, 17 patients were on gurneys in the Emergency Dept.

That has increased to 22, today.

Nationally, 305 people are being treated on gurneys.

University Hospital Limerick where 36 people are on trolleys, is Ireland's most overcrowded hospital today.

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