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Galway’s public hospitals are experiencing heavy overcrowding today, with nearly 90 people waiting on trolleys this morning.
University Hospital Galway is the second most overcrowded in the country today, with 67 patients on trolleys as of Tuesday morning.
Of these, 51 people are waiting on trolleys in the Emergency Department and another 16 are in the wards without a bed.
Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe is also experiencing a bad day for pressure on beds, with 18 people on trolleys.
Eight of these patients are on trolleys in the Emergency Department and another 10 are located in the hospital wards.
Nationwide there are 606 people in Irish hospitals with no beds available for them as of this morning INMO Trolley/Ward Watch figures show.
The worst affected are UH Limerick (97), University Hospital Galway (67), Cork University Hospital (61), and St Vincent’s University Hospital (39).
